If you were a mantis,
Long-legged and green,
You'd be the finest insect
The bug-world has yet seen.
You'd crawl up to my chamber;
With skill you would woo,
And as a gal-mantis, gladly
Your head I would chew.
For in this way such creatures
Express their deep affections.
Eating exoskeleton nourishes
Their loving connections.
A beau that gets chowed on
Never does go amiss--
For a mantis, cannibalism
Is true love's first kiss.
And when your cranium was finished,
And the passion had died,
You'd still have a rudimentary brain located in your thorax
To remember me by.
...But I'm not a mantis,
And you still have your head,
Though you admit, sometime
'TERRA': Chapter 8 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 8
One-third's chance.
He looked down at the trio of overturned playing cards that had been placed before him, which would have been no more than flimsy rectangles of thin cardboard were they not about to be the deciders of his fate. He tried to fight the rising panic that was building up within him, the instinctive terror that made him feel as though all the air in his chest were being slowly but surely squeezed out by some huge, invisible hand. He exhaled, but could not inhale. He felt a surge of vertigo as he continued to stare down at the hypnotizing geometric design that adorned the back of all three cards, all entirely identical, all enti
'TERRA': Chapter 7 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 7
'Why are they looking at me like that?'
Japan could see it in their eyes, the way the two trespassers gawked at him: the perfect, colorful spheres of their irises widened, threatening to swallow up the bright ebony pupils in a single gulp.
He remembered seeing that same look of bewitched fascination in people watching a performer cross a tightrope at a circus. In their gazes, there was always that sparkle of fear and agonized suspense as the daredevil took yet another step that had every chance of resulting in his death. But still they kept their eyes fixated on his every move. They would not, could not look away because if they did,
'TERRA': Chapter 6 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 6
She knew what it meant to be made prey. She'd been both hunter and hunted in the past, after all. It really came down to the matter of being in exactly the wrong place at exactly the wrong time.
She recalled once when she'd observed a cat as it stalked a blissfully unaware mouse. The latter was not alerted to the danger that crept gradually toward it on silent feline paws until the very last possible second. In that fleeting moment before the predator's tightly wound-up body unleashed its deadliness in one vicious pounce, the rodent's tiny eyes widened. Beady pupils dilated and became deep ebony pools, reflecting all the shock and fear that
'TERRA': Chapter 5 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 5
The "hero", this nation called himself.
What a claim.
Though perhaps it wasn't entirely surprising, considering the man appeared to have all the tact and logic of a fruit fly. Anyone who strode right into the middle of a heated street-fight between two men he'd never met before in his lifeso utterly foolhardy and ignorantcouldn't have had much going on beneath that fedora of his. That wasn't heroic it was downright stupid.
But it seemed that he wasn't about to stop there.
No, he continued walking with a swagger in his step, boldly approaching the two rival countries. Now that he was closer and no longer so well hidden be
'TERRA': Chapter 4 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 4
It didn't take long for Germany to conclude that he simply could not comprehend this unfamiliar nation.
It seemed that this curled-haired idiot just did not get it. He could not or would not wrap his mind around the fact that the vast majority of the world viewed him as subhuman, unworthy, an unclean being destined only to lead an unclean life in the filth of their own sin.
A country.
Impure and cursed.
That is not how this Italy person acted. He was apparently oblivious to the desperation of his surroundings, and that of his own condition. He had some sort of invisible shield of constant happiness around him, making him impervious to th
'TERRA': Chapter 3 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 3
The gang member hurried down the series of barren, unfriendly hallways. He silently prayed that he would not be spotted, that no one was around to hear the clatter of his shoes smacking against the floor as he ran. He was late to the meeting, and he knew his boss was bound to be less than thrilled by the time he showed up.
Of course, it wasn't as though he hadn't been punished for such an offense before.
After what seemed like an eternity of wandering through the hideout's maze, he reached the gray double doors and burst through them into the meeting room. To his immense shock and relief, it was entirely dark and devoid of people. Not both
'TERRA': Chapter 2 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 2
"Don't move," the mugger whispered, voice as soft as a snake's hiss, pressing the black pistol harder against the temple of his victim. "Not an inch."
The latter nodded frantically and obediently as he sniffled and whimpered for mercy. Loud, pathetic sobs escaped the traumatized man, causing violent tremors to wrack his thin, vulnerable body. "P-please d-don't shoot. I-I've got money that's w-w-what you want, i-isn't it? You c-can take it all, I-I swear! S stop this, please d-damn the countries d-d-damn them all to hell "
The assailant listened to the man's tear-choked pleas and curses unemotionally before slam
'TERRA': Chapter 1 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 1
PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION BELOW FIRST!!!
~
Sunlight strained to get through the grimy windows of the abandoned building, providing meager illumination in the empty room. The Resistance fighter stood with his back against the barren and cracked gray walls, machine gun in hand, keeping watch. Just outside, the hideous, disgusting, repulsive thing that symbolized everything he was against waved at him mockingly in the windthe flag of TERRA, just one of probably hundreds of thousands that were being proudly displayed in the city at that very moment. Its colors and symbols, he knew, were all supposed to have meaning: the red backdrop of the
'TERRA': Prologue by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Prologue
"Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do."
No it isn't hard to do at all. It isn't hard to imagine a world without nations, without borders, without flags, without ethnicity. A world united, the human race made whole. So many differences abolished.
Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?
Let's play a game. Let's play "Imagine".
Let's imagine that there really were no countries. The Earth had been united under one rule, one bodywe'll call that single governing body TERRA. They had done the impossible, that which men has wished for since the first civilizations spilled the first crimson drop of blood on the grounds of a battlefie
If you were a mantis,
Long-legged and green,
You'd be the finest insect
The bug-world has yet seen.
You'd crawl up to my chamber;
With skill you would woo,
And as a gal-mantis, gladly
Your head I would chew.
For in this way such creatures
Express their deep affections.
Eating exoskeleton nourishes
Their loving connections.
A beau that gets chowed on
Never does go amiss--
For a mantis, cannibalism
Is true love's first kiss.
And when your cranium was finished,
And the passion had died,
You'd still have a rudimentary brain located in your thorax
To remember me by.
...But I'm not a mantis,
And you still have your head,
Though you admit, sometime
'TERRA': Chapter 8 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 8
One-third's chance.
He looked down at the trio of overturned playing cards that had been placed before him, which would have been no more than flimsy rectangles of thin cardboard were they not about to be the deciders of his fate. He tried to fight the rising panic that was building up within him, the instinctive terror that made him feel as though all the air in his chest were being slowly but surely squeezed out by some huge, invisible hand. He exhaled, but could not inhale. He felt a surge of vertigo as he continued to stare down at the hypnotizing geometric design that adorned the back of all three cards, all entirely identical, all enti
'TERRA': Chapter 7 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 7
'Why are they looking at me like that?'
Japan could see it in their eyes, the way the two trespassers gawked at him: the perfect, colorful spheres of their irises widened, threatening to swallow up the bright ebony pupils in a single gulp.
He remembered seeing that same look of bewitched fascination in people watching a performer cross a tightrope at a circus. In their gazes, there was always that sparkle of fear and agonized suspense as the daredevil took yet another step that had every chance of resulting in his death. But still they kept their eyes fixated on his every move. They would not, could not look away because if they did,
'TERRA': Chapter 6 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 6
She knew what it meant to be made prey. She'd been both hunter and hunted in the past, after all. It really came down to the matter of being in exactly the wrong place at exactly the wrong time.
She recalled once when she'd observed a cat as it stalked a blissfully unaware mouse. The latter was not alerted to the danger that crept gradually toward it on silent feline paws until the very last possible second. In that fleeting moment before the predator's tightly wound-up body unleashed its deadliness in one vicious pounce, the rodent's tiny eyes widened. Beady pupils dilated and became deep ebony pools, reflecting all the shock and fear that
'TERRA': Chapter 5 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 5
The "hero", this nation called himself.
What a claim.
Though perhaps it wasn't entirely surprising, considering the man appeared to have all the tact and logic of a fruit fly. Anyone who strode right into the middle of a heated street-fight between two men he'd never met before in his lifeso utterly foolhardy and ignorantcouldn't have had much going on beneath that fedora of his. That wasn't heroic it was downright stupid.
But it seemed that he wasn't about to stop there.
No, he continued walking with a swagger in his step, boldly approaching the two rival countries. Now that he was closer and no longer so well hidden be
'TERRA': Chapter 4 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 4
It didn't take long for Germany to conclude that he simply could not comprehend this unfamiliar nation.
It seemed that this curled-haired idiot just did not get it. He could not or would not wrap his mind around the fact that the vast majority of the world viewed him as subhuman, unworthy, an unclean being destined only to lead an unclean life in the filth of their own sin.
A country.
Impure and cursed.
That is not how this Italy person acted. He was apparently oblivious to the desperation of his surroundings, and that of his own condition. He had some sort of invisible shield of constant happiness around him, making him impervious to th
'TERRA': Chapter 3 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 3
The gang member hurried down the series of barren, unfriendly hallways. He silently prayed that he would not be spotted, that no one was around to hear the clatter of his shoes smacking against the floor as he ran. He was late to the meeting, and he knew his boss was bound to be less than thrilled by the time he showed up.
Of course, it wasn't as though he hadn't been punished for such an offense before.
After what seemed like an eternity of wandering through the hideout's maze, he reached the gray double doors and burst through them into the meeting room. To his immense shock and relief, it was entirely dark and devoid of people. Not both
'TERRA': Chapter 2 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 2
"Don't move," the mugger whispered, voice as soft as a snake's hiss, pressing the black pistol harder against the temple of his victim. "Not an inch."
The latter nodded frantically and obediently as he sniffled and whimpered for mercy. Loud, pathetic sobs escaped the traumatized man, causing violent tremors to wrack his thin, vulnerable body. "P-please d-don't shoot. I-I've got money that's w-w-what you want, i-isn't it? You c-can take it all, I-I swear! S stop this, please d-damn the countries d-d-damn them all to hell "
The assailant listened to the man's tear-choked pleas and curses unemotionally before slam
'TERRA': Chapter 1 by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Chapter 1
PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION BELOW FIRST!!!
~
Sunlight strained to get through the grimy windows of the abandoned building, providing meager illumination in the empty room. The Resistance fighter stood with his back against the barren and cracked gray walls, machine gun in hand, keeping watch. Just outside, the hideous, disgusting, repulsive thing that symbolized everything he was against waved at him mockingly in the windthe flag of TERRA, just one of probably hundreds of thousands that were being proudly displayed in the city at that very moment. Its colors and symbols, he knew, were all supposed to have meaning: the red backdrop of the
'TERRA': Prologue by AkiraWolfWriter888, literature
Literature
'TERRA': Prologue
"Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do."
No it isn't hard to do at all. It isn't hard to imagine a world without nations, without borders, without flags, without ethnicity. A world united, the human race made whole. So many differences abolished.
Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?
Let's play a game. Let's play "Imagine".
Let's imagine that there really were no countries. The Earth had been united under one rule, one bodywe'll call that single governing body TERRA. They had done the impossible, that which men has wished for since the first civilizations spilled the first crimson drop of blood on the grounds of a battlefie
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