The author, D E Bartley is a scifi flash fiction writer, a poetess, and an artist of many different medias, and genres. You can find her art online at donna.mosaicglobe.com.
An avid photographer, and horticulturalist, she has published with many online ezines and literary magazines. She uses her life’s experiences to write her short stories and flash fiction.
Lucifer, you never looked so sane. A morning star no longer in the game I see you now, the golden boy in chains still pointing that accusing finger to lay blame
an old hand now, who, through the years, has learned his job to point in the direction, why not that? your legion's weak, their foibles soon discerned: their selfishness, their vanity, their doubt
temptation, the trick you used to play you look, from Hell, to higher planes, and sigh. carrots, strings and axes put away Your blithe mask slips. You wipe tears from your 'eye'
And in your hand, man's long unsettled score: rotting, brown, a withered apple-core.