Every sector of the economy sucks ballsack right now
>>61880402Oil stocks are mooning
>>61880402She had always counted her life in carats and ounces, fingers stained with the memory of every coin and trinket she'd ever hoarded. When the moon slid behind a ragged cloud she followed a glint between the trunks, deeper and deeper into a maze of trees that seemed to rearrange themselves with each step. The path narrowed, the air grew colder, and the gold at the end of her sight felt suddenly like a promise she could not refuse.Branches scraped like fingernails as the forest closed around her; the dark hummed with a low, patient hunger. From the underbrush came a chorus of wet, eager breaths and high, animal snarls—Sneeds, a name whispered by the wind—circling, tasting the light of her panic. Her footsteps faltered; the sound of her own heartbeat was a small, frantic drum beneath the bigger rhythm of the pack.They fell upon her with a sound that was all teeth and hunger, a tearing chorus that swallowed her cries and left only the forest's reply. Fabric ripped, a single, sharp exhale of terror, then the relentless, slavering chorus as the Sneeds worked together, dragging her toward the darkness where even the moonlight could not follow. The last thing she heard was the forest closing its mouth, the sound of the feast folding into the dark until nothing remained but the echo of her name being swallowed whole.
