Ashes

by Philipp Mählmann
(Greifswald, Germany)

Ashes - a Tale of Terror

On an island, an old vulcano has erupted again for the first time in centuries. While there is no imminent danger for the few settlements on the island, big clouds of ashes are spreading over a wide area and the near continent.

Possibilities

1 In the areas where the ashes sink down, the deceased rise from their graves and start spreading terror, eating the flesh of the living...

2 In a night after a larger eruption, witnesses claim that amidst the ash cloud a big shadow was seen, as if a gigantic creature had emerged from the vulcano, before disappearing into the night - and the vulcano still hasn't come to rest...

3 In the areas where the ashes sink down, certain people - artists, poets an other daydreamers - start having nightmares in which they claim to have seen an ancient city of strange and twisted proportions, as if not made for humans. As the nightmares continue, more and more of these people are driven by an overwhelming desire to go to the vulcano and look for the city there, finally even climbing down to its center, never to be seen again...

Copyright 2010 Philipp Mählmann

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