"To play the pawns well; they are the soul of chess: it is they which uniquely determine the attack and the defense, and on their good or bad arrangement depends entirely on the winning or losing of the game." - François-André Danican Philidor
They...
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Fool's Mate (n.) Two-move checkmate. Checkmate in the fewest moves from the start of the game.
She came then looked into my eyes. I lost. Checkmate.
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Ace Archer
I couldn't get her out of my head.
The intoxicating lavender-vanilla scent still lingered not only on my palms that touched her bloodied hands but on my whole being.
Her porcelain skin, although smeared with the enemy's impurities glistened against the unrelenting glare of the sun while her brown-gold streaked hair streamed through her shoulders like dripping honey.
She was heavenly.
But I wish...
I wish she didn't look at me with those bluish-golden eyes.
I wish she didn't look like her...
The exact replica of the woman who caused my mother's death.
"That would be my mother."
"Fuck!" I cursed as I recalled her words.
Crimson red paint trickled from my throbbing hands that slightly stained the sequoia tree I've been beating up in the forest for what it feels like hours. I continued to punch, dumping every tension that I wasn't able to release in my office a while back.
Why?
Why did it have to be her?
I felt the burden as I shut my eyes and rested my forehead on the tree. A few moments passed, I turned and sat on the ground then I looked up to see the remaining sun cosseted by the grey clouds. The fragments hues of the day slowly hugged the first cloud of the night.
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