Word: Swell
Word Count: 100
He was too late.
His brother's skin was peeled back like an orange peel, and rusted nails speared flaps of it to the peaks of his ribs. Blood leaked from the crease of his hips; a deep chevron of flesh was carved from his stomach and the swell of his pelvis, and the white of his hipbone lurked beneath a translucent wrap of veins. His feet dangled into a crimson soup of skin and blood.
Knife clattering to the floor in shock, his brother's defeated, glazed eyes met his own, and a single word swelled over his (their) lips.
Yes.
