His Hideous Heart by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, young adult, Anthologies
ISBN: 9781250302779
Goodreads: 39127647
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2019-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

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Ah, besh. I’m sure you know what happened next, diba? When the results from the crime lab came back and there was blood on the knife? And it wasn’t any of the Kanos’ blood?! Remember when they compared it to that other girl murdered last year, and it was a match? It was Ogie who suggested that, and he was right! He was supposed to solve the Kanos’ murders, but he actually solved the murder they committed! Plot twist, sobra!

The Kanos killed that girl! And it was a trans girl rin daw! Those men had also stayed in Boracay back in 2017, remember? And then they were here in 2015, when there was another murder! Honestly, no one’s interested in their killer anymore. Parang they want to know who it was so they can give them a medal!

Not even Ogie minded after that. “I’m more interested in justice finally being served,” he said. “I’ll take this as a victory. They had money, and money passes through a lot of judicial hands here. I don’t think they would have stayed in jail for very long in the Philippines.…”

“But who did you think killed those men?” I asked.

“I can’t give you a name,” he said. “But I can make an educated guess. First—they weren’t much into cleanliness, these Dayton-Smiths, and I thought they would be particularly lax when it came to cleaning up evidence, counting on the lack of DNA analysis in Philippine criminal cases. I hope this doesn’t offend, but Filipinos have a tendency to put white foreigners on a pedestal over their own kinspeople, and the murderers knew it. Cruel men, these Dayton-Smiths. The knife was my best bet.

“Secondly, if an aswang had attacked them for their livers alone it would have been easier to find some solitary tourist on the beach in the dark and assault them instead. Why risk getting in through an open window where they could have been seen? That, and the ten thousand dollars remaining in the men’s possession suggests not a robbery, but a personal vendetta.

“And then there’s the mysterious killer who speaks in no human language the neighbors could discern. Everyone did agree it was a low, moaning voice. Perhaps their inability to determine the murderer’s nationality was because the language they heard wasn’t human to begin with. No one that night heard the compulsory eek eek cry aswangs make when they attack. Eldritches and vampires do so silently. Werewolves would have destroyed the room in their rage, howled up a ruckus. If no species currently living in Boracay fit that profile, perhaps the moaning was a deliberate attempt to mislead us.

“So let us follow the hypothesis that someone took their livers not to eat, but to blame the aswangs. But again, why choose the Dayton-Smiths in particular? As I said before, any tourist would have sufficed. I see no connection between the Americans and the aswangs, and most of the latter had already gone to Kalibo for work. Was the

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