User:Abtin Alavi/Lictor(Novel)

[[File:Lictor book.jpg|thumb|Author: Mohammad AbediCountry: Iran

Publisher: Supreme Art]]

Lictor is a 2018 short novel by persian author Mohammad Abedi. It is about the only humans still alive in a cave. They always feel the shadow of a monster over their heads. At the beginning of this short novel, we read:The advent of the monster transformed human life. The enforced exile of people to a spacious, dark and grim cave and their segregation were the most fundamental of these changes. As soon as humans set foot in the cave, they decided to repair and rebuild the damp walls of the cave that reeked of staleness. Soon after, each group took over a part of the cave and refurbished and redecorated it as they wished. They were granted permission to live into the cave on a condition: to offer a human sacrifice to the monster every day. Feeling helpless and desperate, human understood that they had no choice but to embrace their grim destiny and endure the scourges of living in the cave by fulfilling the monster’s arbitrary demand. The monster emerged a long time ago. Now there were only a few humans left.

Part of the book
"Honestly, I thought we would one day figure out this truth. We have very little time. Our leaders are gone. Our little children are gone. Each and every people in our groups disappeared and we just turned a blind eye. A dozens of people broke away and ran away from the monster. I don't know what might have happened to them. They might have died of cold; fallen into the monster's trap or even drowned in the swamp. We don't have much time, but we can give ourselves a chance. Perhaps we find one of “the dead” alive here. Unless we do anything, we would wind up dead. With this excruciating pain and agony, how will the sun shine on this land again? To save our lives and provide the means of life for the future generation, we have to fight the monster."