Pleasure Gods & Their Infidels

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Summary

Strange things are happening in the offices of Raines Market Research. Unknowing diversity hire Cassius Issac arrives for his first day at the small conservative firm wary but optimistic. An optimism that is destined to wither. Hours after being outed to the entire building, Cass is assaulted in a supply closet by a co-worker screaming about 'red lambs.' What Cass has stumbled into is a cruel experiment in human sacrifice conducted within a labyrinth snaking through the bowels of the city, its architect a cult searching for the perfect victims among love's discarded. And in Cass, and five other victims gathered as an offering, they may have found them.

Status
Excerpt
Chapters
1
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Liturgy of the Red Lamb

In pallid sky, our shepherd's watch.

With red and black and grey awash.

Guides wounded feet o'er barren stark.

'Round red raw soul, its flames burn dark.


To bleeding breast, its six draw close,

'Mid hellish halls and paths morose.

Their flail and thrash break wheels' cease.

The treasured, adoring lambs released.


Thirsting fallow, suffer slakes.

White wolves hunger, misery wakes.

Its crook and staff our gifts impart.

Its crowning glory rots mortal hearts.