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Titus
The emperor gave Titus the signal and he plunged his sword into the gladiator. Blood gushed from his neck, and he took his last gasp. The crowd chanted and Titus waved his arms in victory.
Titus’ master approached. “Well done, Titus. There hasn’t been a gladiator to match you, and I hope it stays that way.”
The ground began to rumble. The emperor’s statue fell in a heap, and people began tumbling to their deaths.
Someone in the crowd yelled. “Look at the mountain. It’s on fire!”
Mount Vesuvius spewed fire and rained pumice.
Titus would not fight another day.
From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher
Buried
HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY:
Quintus, uncomfortably warm, found himself staring blankly at the frescoes on his wall of intertwined naked ladies and men. Startled out of his daydream when the floor shook and the walls cracked, he ran through the atrium to the front wooden door and opened it. People scrambled the streets, colliding into one another screaming in terror. Mount Vesuvius had erupted into fiery lava, ash and pumice.
Quintus ran, but the roof collapsed and buried him in a pile of burning rocks. With shallow breathing, and his lungs collapsed, he bid farewell to Pompeii as the sound of dying screams faded.
From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher
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