WEWRIWA & #SnippetSunday: Walls of Skulls and Mortar, Elizabeth Alsobrooks

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I keep forgetting that not everyone is on mountain time, so never seem to get my post listed on time--especially since I'm a night owl. However, I have continued to work on my short horror story, so will post a few lines. They are escaping the catacombs, and Sabina has led them to an unlikely escape route...

Catacombs, with skull "bricks"

     Swallowing, she clambered through the hollow that was channeled into the rock wall. The beam from her torch dimmed as though the batteries were drained. Sabina shook it until it flickered and then regained a dim beam, strong enough to scan the chamber.
     A pile of human skulls erected as though it were a shrine rose in the corner and gave her pause. Moving the light upward, she saw that the wall was literally mortared with the macabre human bricks, as were many other walls within the catacombs.
    This would be a terrifying place for a child, she thought, just as she spotted a small, stooped figure near the far wall, huddled beneath a shelf-like depression where a few bone fragments were all the remained of a once prominent corpse whose tomb had been desecrated centuries ago.  

Hudson here, or as my humans sometimes say, Hudsie-Pudsie--when they forget I'm all grown up and 6 years old. I hope you enjoyed the snippet I posted for Elizabeth today. Be sure to read the other Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday authors for more great reads! Leave them a comment so they don't feel lonely!