Apex Magazine Issue 21 by Cat Rambo Forrest Aguirre Nalo Hopkinson

Author:Cat Rambo, Forrest Aguirre, Nalo Hopkinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-02-02T22:26:15.452000+00:00

Frankenstein Don Juan had tried everything he could think of, but there was no waking The Maker. He had screamed and roared, smashed together beakers, turned on the Faraday cage, even chanted a few lines of a hymn taken from The Necronomicon (the blood was dry on the parchment, he noticed, not that it would infect him anyway, being undead) all to no avail. Not that he had any sort of altruistic motives--he was still Don Juan on the inside, after all. He wanted an audience.

Luckily, someone found him.

A huge explosion outside heralded the someone’s or someones’ arrival (he couldn’t be sure which, quite yet). He smiled at the sound of shrapnel plinking off the walls outside and the roof above. Hopefully, his visitor (or visitors) had not gone to smithereens. It would be such a shame to have left the land of the dead so recently and be unable to talk with its recently interred denizens, if that were the case. Of course, he had not tried to talk to the dead since he had awoken here. And, who knew? Perhaps his existence somewhere between the land of the living and the land of the dead, that indeterminate state called undeath, would grant him the privilege of speaking with those on both sides of the veil. On the other hand, it might, likewise, prevent conversation with either one. In any case, he felt compelled to find out. He rushed, well, lumbered, really, down the stairs that encircled the inner wall of the citadel, seeking an audience with the living or the dead.

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