Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front

Words: 189
Pages: 1

rained over the battlefield, splaying it in blood, like a crimson blanket covering the dirtied land. There was no light. It was stolen by thick smoke as a torrent of rain poured down from gathering clouds, blocking the sun out. The Earth seemed to weep despairingly as people trudged forward, pressing onwards with hopeless moans. Bodies, puddles and large fragments of shrapnel, had impeded the path ahead for any surviving soldiers. It was buried not only by suffocating smoke, but mud as well, only appearing as layer and layers of stained soil. They could only push forward into the darkness. A sudden gust carried the reek of ripped flesh, burnt explosives and rotting bodies around, hanging it in the air. Beneath their wounded feet, mud melted