for every spell a price to pay cryptic runes siphon the life force from flesh
Author: Elancharan இளஞ்சேரன்
Elancharan Gunasekaran is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. He has a strange love for all things poetical and Sci-Fi. A winner of the Montblanc X Esquire Six-word Story prize 2017. His latest publications are Superatomicluminal (Hesterglock Press), Gods of the Gonzo (Analog Submission Press) and The Cosmosnaut Manifesto (UndergroundBooks).
parchment torn from thunderclouds the raven quill writhes and wails in ink
a slow stroll through a labyrinth spun from the ashes of discarded dreams
not a weapon but a blacksmith’s wish to splinter and reveal what lies beneath
wanders from hand to hand the bloodblade wanders the lands in search of true death
you ask for mercy and the beast laughs teeth tips alit in undying fires
in the heart of the nebula a child is born she bends light breaking the bones of stars
we are not gods here but merely passengers in entropy’s wreckage
we worship glitches the corruption that births new worlds
where code becomes flesh bcoms dust the machine screams
elancharan gunasekaran 