Apex Magazine Issue 26 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apex Publications
Published: 2011-07-04T22:57:47+00:00

Namir watches his wife and son sifting the salt pans from afar, wishing he could come closer to see what they look like. He is now tracking them almost entirely by their emanations, his whiskers bristling always to catch them in the breeze. He is glad he can still sense them. But he is forgetting what they look like.

He still holds onto the memories of Sanih looking at him through the steam, tonguing the boiled eyeball into her cheek with a grin; of their first kiss in the cold desert night, shivering in a shared shawl; of watching his glistening newborn suckle his zai’s breast under the dappled shadows of an oasis; of little Dimir taking his first tottering steps onto the tender flank of a dune. But their faces are blurring, melting away, the details of each moment becoming confused. He wants to go closer to them, to see their faces again, but he resists, digging his claws into the packed sand. A growl rattles through his clenched teeth, his lips peeling back to bare fangs.

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