Every Boy Should Have a Man by Preston L. Allen

Author:Preston L. Allen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, ebook, General, Literary, Science Fiction, book, Fiction
ISBN: 9781617751578
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2013-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

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When the one called Gen’rl came back from the war that evening, he was in a dark mood and he demanded song.

So were they all in a dark mood, for it had not gone well for them that day.

They grabbed the mans that were bound by rope, about fifty of them, and swung their heads against the walls or crushed them with rocks or smashed them with clubs as the female man played their favorite songs, and then they did devour them.

She had no real love for these mans that they were devouring. She had never become friendly with them because most of them were weaklings who always cried to be returned to their masters when the work in the mines became too hard—but the smell of their blood made her head swing.

She missed a few beats in her song, which made the oafs gurgle with blood in their laughter. When they opened their mouths she saw pulverized skulls. When they closed their mouths their lips were red and glistening with viscera.

After he had eaten his fill, the one called Gen’rl came to the cot and looked at her with a dangerous fever, and she played the anthem for him over and over again until he calmed himself and fell asleep: “Justice vision, Justice true, fair to the unfair, Justice bleed . . .”

When she thought he was sleeping, she set the small singing harp on the ground and sighed, but his enormous arm shot up, grabbed her, and pulled her down.

He kissed her with lips pasted over with the sticky remains of the dead.

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