Matador

A matador walks into the forest.‭ ‬A killer by any other name,‭ ‬he is called Paolo.‭ ‬He even has a red cape,‭ ‬which he lays down over the moss.‭ ‬He sets out wine and Monchego.‭ ‬She comes sniffing,‭ ‬slinking,‭ ‬from the undergrowth.‭ ‬With big white teeth,‭ ‬he smiles.‭ ‬He spares a moment to think how beautiful her eyes,‭ ‬like amber on the southern beaches.‭ ‬And then as she dips to taste the wine,‭ ‬he presses home the blade,‭ ‬and again,‭ ‬until his cape is soaked with the Wolf’s blood.‭ ‬He wears it proudly out of the woods,‭ ‬wrapped around him.

Author Bio: 

R.S.‭ ‬Bohn thinks about Ray Bradbury,‭ ‬a thousand miles away,‭ ‬and Mars and the African Veldt,‭ ‬right in the next room.‭ ‬She feels the blues creeping from the Delta to seep into her soul,‭ ‬and dreams of floating away down big rivers on barges full of books.‭ ‬Her first chapbook,‭ ‬Letters From the Egg Carton,‭ ‬will be published by Deadly Chaps press,‭ ‬October‭ ‬19th:‭ ‬http://www.deadlychaps.com/