Folkloric: Tales of Folklore & Horror by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sentinel Creatives
Published: 2024-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

She’d dreamed once of bleeding songbirds from her severed wrists, of porcelain beaks emerging from split skin, puddles of red feathers that took to wing, their voices glittering the air like bright baubles on a noble’s neck.

Her dreams were rancid now, her sleep putrescent with nightmare.

She parted flesh with shining blade, but from the rupture spilt no chattering beaks nor iridescent feathers.

Instead, serpents slid from the marks dream-gouged into belly and thigh. Wounds stabbed deep, knife hitting bone, to wake the tangled vipers. She lay upon the lake shore, in the muck and mire behind her hovel, and like some woodland shidder, birthed serpents of smoke and flame, serpents with glowing eyes and silver forked-tongues, fangs dripping venom, and a ravenous ache in the hollow of their bellies.

This: flotsam Death-spawn—unwanted, reviled, rejected.

Even the whelps of the oldest gods craved and yearned and hurt.

This: an echo of Prättäkitti’s own knife-twist ache, whittled from grief and sculpted into an exquisite loneliness only ever temporarily alleviated by villager visits. But the poppets were gone now, shaken into crystal shatter. The bones of dead pets had been ground to dust beneath her feet. And no baked affection could satiate her rumbling emptiness.

She was bereft. All humans fled her forest.

Prättäkitti was alone but for the monster feasting on her innards.

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