I love stories that literalise a metaphor, especially if that metaphor is more of a metonym and does actually have concrete implications in the real world (like the "marking" of prisoners though). It also reminded me a bit of one of my favourite Kafka stories, 'In the Penal Colony'.
That is a very imaginative flash! I can imagine it becoming a longer story or full-length book. I think the word "etched" works. But maybe chiseled, carved, engraved, burned into, or something along those lines could work?
Now //this// is a superhero comic I would read!
I love stories that literalise a metaphor, especially if that metaphor is more of a metonym and does actually have concrete implications in the real world (like the "marking" of prisoners though). It also reminded me a bit of one of my favourite Kafka stories, 'In the Penal Colony'.
That is a very imaginative flash! I can imagine it becoming a longer story or full-length book. I think the word "etched" works. But maybe chiseled, carved, engraved, burned into, or something along those lines could work?