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quarta-feira, 2 de março de 2011

THE CHALLENGE FROM CTHULHU CHICK

by Arthur Ferreira Jr.'.



And then, from the top of the gambrel, we saw it. That singularly hideous thing, mentioned in the immemorial Pnakotic Manuscripts and the blasphemous Book of Eibon, manifested again, this time as a daemonic iridescence festering at the horizon, which indiscribable stench drove us to an ululating madness in less than one minute. The foetid, amorphous creature was one of the eldritch masks of Nyarlathotep, the decadent and swarthy Messenger from Beyond. From that unnamable veil of macabre effulgence of the Outer, we could feel the abnormal and loathsome influence of Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath's accursed coupling.
   
    It was something no mortal man could behold; those few who resisted its power and rose from the charnel of their own minds, a nameless and antidiluvian comprehension would struck them like a thunderbolt sent from the gibbous moon. I am now one of those chosen; the others fainted or are dead from their own unutterable self-loathing. Now I am the stygian darkness itself, ruling my own private and shunned hyperdimension, all-seeing in a cyclopean palace at the center of this antique plane, served by the squamous and mutant monsters that, aeons ago, long before the mi-go existed, built the towers of Yuggoth.
   
    Such a pity that my old friends from the Miskatonic Valley have now to deal with my sad, comatose husk. Maybe I visit some night, in dreams, if someone in Kingsport dares again to offer them shelter.




------------------------------- Minha própria tradução para o português:






E então, do topo do telhado, a enxergamos. Aquela coisa singularmente hedionda, mencionada nos imemoriais Manuscritos Pnakóticos e no blasfemo Livro de Eibon, manifestou-se novamente, desta vez como uma iridescência demoníaca infestando o horizonte, cujo fedor indescritível nos levou a uma loucura ululante, em menos de um minuto. A fétida e amorfa criatura era uma das máscaras místicas de Nyarlathotep, o moreno e decadente Mensageiro do Além. Daquele véu inominável de esplendor macabro do Exterior Cósmico, pudemos sentir a influência anormal e repulsiva do acasalamento de Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth e Shub-Niggurath.

    Era algo que nenhum mortal poderia suportar; os poucos que resistem a seu poder e ascendem da câmara mortuária de suas próprias mentes, estes são atingidos como se por um raio vindo da lua gibosa. Eu agora era um desses escolhidos; os outros desmaiaram, ou morreram de um horror impronunciável de si mesmos. Agora eu sou a própria escuridão estígia, governando minha hiperdimensão privativa e reclusa, onisciente num palácio ciclópico no centro deste antigo plano, servido por monstros escamosos e mutantes que, eras atrás, muito antes dos mi-go existiram, construíram as torres de Yuggoth.

    É uma pena que meus velhos amigos do Vale do Miskatonic tenha agora de lidar com meu triste corpo comatoso. Talvez eu os visite alguma noite, em seus sonhos, se alguém em Kingsport ousar vez dar-lhes abrigo mais uma vez.

quarta-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2010

CHEW ME, CRUSH ME

Publicado para o New Year Contest em http://figment.com/books/18097-Chew-Me-Crush-Me



Desire was nothing more than fancy, a feeling apart from need.
That's what she thought, until New Year's Eve came, and everything changed.
That was a hell of a party, and the girl wondered what could result of it. Feelings of danger passed through her head, but her heart accepted the challenge. Three doses of  TALON, the new drug on the block, at a good price and no overdose risk. David guaranteed that. David was her brother's best friend – the fact that he turned into a pusher didn't messed the trust between them.
You can picture the music running at the party as whatever music excites you. That wouldn't make any difference, because after Monique swallowed the Talon pills, no more than ten minutes passed, and the sounds turned to ones that existed only in her mind.
Sounds of the forest and the jungle. Dripping water. Birds singing, insects buzzing. The howl of a distant wolf. All in the confines of a New Year's Eve party.
Monique thought she was mad, but dared not to tell this to anyone. Soon the sounds in her ears were joined by the smells of everybody in the dancing floor. She could taste the sweat of a couple making out, at the opposite side of the club. To sound and smell and taste, the vision added new perspectives, she could see the lines of time, tangling around the dancing people, suggesting points of pressure from beyond and points of weakness where she could attack them.
Yes, she could attack them, she needed to attack, to bite, to chew, to transform.
She didn't know that 0,01% of Talon users had reactions like that, and that she was one of that group, pulled by a near-overdose. None of these facts concerned her: from that moment – when the clock showed 23:59 PM – no preoccupations, no responsibilities, no limits concerned her. She was truly free.
At least, she felt so free, so hungry and wild, that taking this stranger, who teased her all night, to the dark room, seemed so obvious. She could have done it earlier. He was her prey, calling her to corner him and devour.
She hugged him, and they kissed so deeply the guy lost his breath, while they moved to the dark room area. “I need to crush you,” said Monique in a frantic voice. “You mean you have a crush on me, didn't you?” answered the man. He didn't have a reply.
Talons ripped his body in a shower of blood. A mouth, once delicate and soft, was now an oversized mandible, chewing the flesh of the now-dead stranger. Soon the werewolf girl crushed his bones, and chewed the marrow of them. “I totally need this”, she thought. And she needed more.
The screams of joy and celebration at that party then turned to pained and fearful screams, crying for a help that never came. And then she was free to the New Year ...

quarta-feira, 3 de novembro de 2010

Instilled

by KAY, The Grey Knight

One fateful day I saw myself
Scultping my travails on the surface of a shadow.
This shadow stands by me in moments of despair
This shadow brings to me the glory of this wonder
This shadow, slithering across my face,
Is only my silent, blissful tear.


This tear I sculpt like jagged glass, like frozen pain,
Like rolling sadness, like painful rain.
It's not by my will the ryhyme
Although it certainly makes me feel fine.


This frozen tear I bring to you:
A poem instilled in solid form.


Read it, drink it, swallow it -- it doesn't matter anymore.

terça-feira, 23 de fevereiro de 2010

The Quest for the Frozen Tear




by KAY, The Grey Knight

Tear, treasure of this broken realm
Is the goal of the quest I've started.
The realm is everywhere. I don't know
Where its borders are, for they are inside me.
Tear, last bastion of a broken faith,
Call me in a howl thru the wastelands,
Thru the swamps, thru the desert
And I fear to awnser this call,
But the quest I started cannot be
Dismissed so easlily, so thoughtlessly.

The striders wander through the entire broken realm,
Searching every corner, searching every house,
Me in their midst, as a sheep among wolves.

The cenotaph is all we found, the tear is frozen,
Only in this dry and cold land that is my soul
Could this mockery of passion silently occur.

As we take the frozen tear to our homeland,
Ther perils of the journey back start to increase:
Nomads, marauders, sinners, necromancers...
All crossing our path, all trying to stop
The inevitable doom of the frozen tear.
We're home again. We're outside our very soul.
We finally cast the shameful frozen tear
Inside the bottomless pit of my lover's soul,
Where the remnants of the love she felt, ages ago,
Will turn the frozen tear into mist of tears...

05-11-2004