Uncanny Magazine Issue 60 by Lynne M. Thomas

Author:Lynne M. Thomas [Uncanny Magazine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, fantasy, magazine
Publisher: Uncanny Magazine
Published: 2024-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

Sangronas help Sangronas, no matter what.

No matter what.

You’re standing there, trembling, the night a storm behind you. Little droplets falling from your bangs. I’m blinking, holding the door, our breaths making a cloud to hold only our faces within. As if I’d ever turn the pathetic thing of you away.

Sangronas don’t share who we were before we became us.

There’s no point in that, all that matters is that we are. But you never cared for the rules, did you? You were never a true Sangrona. Maybe I liked that about you, your determination to bite down on the meat of your desire, while I locked mine behind my teeth. I’d cram the deplorable things under my tongue so I could open wide, say AHHHH when the eyes of scrutiny were aimed at me.

You tell me your mom knows, and honestly, I don’t know what to do with that. I’m too afraid to touch you here on my bed. My desires itching under tongue. Back of throat. You’re crying and I also want to tell you to Suck it up. I don’t. Keeping quiet pulls more out of people, and without prompting, you lay bare the truth you’ve held for so long. You crack, “I chose this life.”

And at the sound of it I want to rip your head off.

“At my old school.” You sniffle between each word, breaking them down into just facts. “I knew what she was. There were rumors. But no one said shit, you know? She was so powerful. Like some goddamn goddess. A real Greek myth and tragedy. She was so-so cool. And no one fucked with her. And everyone fucked with me, and called me things, they never called her anything, even when she wasn’t there…I—I sought her out. Left her a dead owl in her locker. My boon to her. I told her, ‘Make me strong. Make me like you.’”

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