Louis Donovan (strikethose) wrote in repose, @ 2016-05-19 21:17:00 |
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Entry tags: | *news, louis donovan |
[news: capital]
[It's been a few weeks since the last desecration, and now there are several more, all in the span of a few days. The perpetrators are equal opportunity - the first is at a prominent local mosque, the second at a synagogue in a wealthy neighborhood. Again, no one sees the perpetrators get in and out, and that same insignia is spray painted onto floors, walls, and doors. The paint is typically white or gold, and difficult to scrub clean. There is blood at these locations, but less than at the cathedral, no livid pools. Small consolation, though, as the vandals leave bones behind at both. The bones come from a small mammal - most likely a pig - and they've been picked clean and white.
Location number four is yet another church, and the vandals up the ante now, graduating from playfully abominable blasphemies to something more sinister. The police find the minister at the local evangelical protestant church strung to the twenty-foot cross, hanging by his wrists. His arms are dislocated at the shoulders, and he may never regain full motor control in his hands, but he insists, repeatedly, that he wanted it. He will not name those that pulled him up, those that sprayed that same symbol under his feet, on the stone floor. He says he has been saved from madness, and they have a bit of fun interviewing him, wild-eyed and cheerfully proclaiming the glory of his own suffering, on the local news.]