Nightmare Magazine, Issue 117 (June 2022) by Wendy N. Wagner

Author:Wendy N. Wagner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adamant Press
Published: 2022-05-31T17:38:23+00:00

©2022 by Lavie Tidhar.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lavie Tidhar is author of Osama, The Violent Century, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, Unholy Land, and By Force Alone. His latest novels are The Hood and The Escapement. His awards include the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the Neukom Prize and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.

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warming

Maria Zoccola | 202 words

Arctic temperatures are at a record high. Next year they will be even higher, and then even higher than that. Oh, friends, we shouldn’t panic; we can’t give in to despair, not when there’s work to be done. But sometimes we need to feel it. We need to shine a light into the hole and see how far down the bottom really is.

—MZ

here in the north of the world we are all starving of course

and biting each other’s tails to remind

ourselves what it feels like to eat flesh, and when our tails

are bitten we let out the most powerful

and soul-rending shrieks to remind ourselves what it sounds

like to give pain. our gills suck down

waters warm as old stomach acid and the seals won’t pup

and the fish are dead and it’s just us

braiding each other’s hair and deciding who will be the first

to be torn apart and devoured, although

we don’t discuss that part out loud and instead hold it deep

in our salt hearts, the only things around

still frozen.

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