short stories

So That Her High-Born Kinsmen Came


Listen. This is how it is in hell, how your mothers and grandmothers have told it, how your fathers and grandfathers have tallied it. Listen. This is how the tides of hell will number and outnumber you, and how you must drink the dregs of that sea.

Fantasy of a darker sort. Guess which poet inspired this. Motherhood, changeling, sin’s day, hell. I blame Poe, Joe, and the computer game MarbleX (indirectly). Thanks to my sister, Myn, Mrissa, and G.G. 2nd person again. Published in Sybil’s Garage #3.