Emotions 365: The land Enraged, the capitol Terrified

Spires of ancient cities poke from the dunes of Enraged surrounded by sun-cooked sand. At night, the heat rises and dissipates. Few survive it. People attempt long runs through the hot land earning medals. Anyone may come and try. Few succeed. Remorseless they trudge up mountains through the sand with unwavering energy burning bright until the chill sunless night.

The ancient ruins Terrified stand in the middle of the Enraged dunes — a ring of burnt red stone. Red ghosts haunt Terrified and give the runners hallucinations. Blood pools in the circle of ruins, where once a fountain flowed.

Everyone may visit and stand among the ghostly ruins. In a daze they watch the red beasts and awake to find themselves submerged in sand up to their chests and sinking slowly.

Sand snaked writhe and scarab beetles cast curses.

The Terrified visitor, once rescued never forgets the experience.

"The whole city stinks of iron and rot. I thought I'd be food for the carnivorous scavengers," said Miss Emeline Traveler "Until I heard the hollow howl of the bone wolf and felt her teeth latch on the back of my neck and pull me up from the sand."

About this project: Emotion 365: Every Day a New Land of Emotion