Nightmare Magazine Issue 11 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magazine, horror
Publisher: John Joseph Adams
Published: 2013-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

XIV.

Ereškigal wished to sleep. She went to Ishtar and said to her, “Our mother has been killed. Our father has fed her body to his sons.”

“Then I will eat his sons,” Ishtar replied.

“Then you will be killed as well, and your heart will be used as kindling for their sun.”

“Then I will eat their sun,” Ishtar replied.

“You will burn from the inside and never stop burning.”

“Then I will eat myself,” Ishtar replied.

“Sister,” Ereškigal said. “Have you ever seen my tooth?”

“No,” Ishtar replied, “You hide it away as if you are ashamed. You would bow to Adam’s sons. You would allow them to tame our savage world as you have been tamed. You were born tamed.”

Ereškigal reached behind her eye. She found the place in her skull where she hid her tooth and twisted it free with two pointed fingers. She held it up to the light and wanted for the fear in her sister’s eyes when she placed it between her lips.

“A disease of the feet against your feet,” she said, and Ishtar’s feet curled into clubs and she fell to the ground.

“A disease of the hand against your hands,” she said, and Ishtar’s fingers withered to ribbons.

“A disease of the eye against your eyes,” she said, and Ishtar’s eyes turned black and wept blood.

“A disease of the mouth against your mouth,” she said, and Ishtar fell silent.

Ereškigal stroked her sister’s hair and cleaned the blood from her face. “We will sleep,” she whispered, “We will sleep until their soft bones turn to water. We will wait until their corpses make the earth a throne.”

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