once in a while a screamer

once in a while a screamer

fiction
edward w pritchard

Once in a while a screamer would fly through the air when the conquering armies for sport shot their enemy against the mountain side. Sometimes the victim would pray and sometimes curse and swear. Rarely, only rarely a victim would shout out a number, and the soldiers would stop what they were doing and all eyes would watch the catapult as the flying numerologist prophesied. If it was Friday and payday for the soldiers that number that the flying terrified victim of the catapult screamed flying to his death against the mountain side would be bet over and over by the superstitious soldiers in their roulette or craps games.