Bards and Sages Quarterly (April 2015) by unknow
Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, fantasy, science fiction, magazine, speculative fiction, short stories
Publisher: Bards and Sages Publishing
Published: 2015-04-02T00:00:00+00:00
The Sound Down by the Shore
by Douglas J. Ogurek
â...yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.â â Acts 2:11
A man stood at the brink of a cliff five hundred feet above the sea. His hair swept back and his gown fluttered. The foot-wide disk that extended from his third finger rippled and released a rumble that carried for ten miles.
The sound and the fluttering stopped. The disk retracted into his finger.
The bushes behind him rustled. He faced them, and his pointing finger swelled into a larger disk. A short man stumbled out of the bushes. Colorful shoe prints covered his clothing. âWait, wait, a-chay. A-glaych, this screw in my head. Iâm a Huekee, way-mee.â
Wind returned, and the disk grew.
The Huekeeâs glasses slanted so that the one cracked lens sat above his left eye. He pointed at the clusters of red hair pulled over his bald scalp, rang a shoe bell. âThe Huekees? Look-ay weâre the Huekees?â
âFool. How came you here?â
âDouggie Westeastee sent me. Iâm not complaining, but this is a rather cold reception.â
âWhhhhhhy...â The wind intensified.
âMr...sir great wizard musician tribe member? Iâm...a-glaych this screw in my head.â
âI am Tuuli, and I am a member of me. How...came...you...here?â
âDouggie Westeastee. Through a door at Douggie Westeasteeâs Crayon Factory? Taupe is my color. Do you know taupe?â
âI know this island. I know me.â The disk began to ripple. âWhy are you here?â
âA-hay, to find a singing squad to join. And to sing taupely, Tuuli. Taupe is my color, see?â He pointed at a part of his costume not covered by a shoe print.
The wind died, and the disk receded into the finger. âYou will come with me.â
âYay-hay, you will take me to where I can sing taupely?â
Tuuli, extending a deep hum, began walking. The Huekee followed.
* * *
Tuuli and the Huekee walked beneath slanting stone slabs, some of which were capped by small pyramids.
The Huekeeâs shoes tinkled with each step. âHow do you make that sound? Is that music? It sounds like thunder and monsters.â
âNooooo. It does not sound like anything that you have seen, or heard, or felt.â
âA-chay.â The Huekee stepped into a patch of sunlight. He shielded his good lens and looked up. âWhat are those up there? Ears?â
Tuuli took in a deep breath then, eyes closed, exhaled. âListen.â From somewhere within the gathering dusk came a quiet whistle.
âWay-hay-hay. What could that be? It sounds so fiery, and admirey.â
Tuuli yanked the bells off the Huekeeâs shoes. âStop interpreting.â
âMy voice sounds like taupe. Not yellow or blue or green, but taupe, a-hay. Every huekee has a color, way-mee, and my colorâs taupe.â The Huekee climbed one of the smaller slabs. âTaupe is grayish-brown, or brownish-gray.â
âMud.â
âMud. But many things are taupe. These are taupe.â The Huekee approached one of the triangles.
âFool, stay away from that.â
âA-chay. Is it dangerous?â
âDangerous for the creature that lives in it if you touch it. My island is the last refuge of the windstoke, and that is a windstokeâs nest.â
âWhere are they?â
âThey leave their nests and gather once every fifty days, and today is one of those days.
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