Baked Scribe Flashback! Issue #44

Manananggal
a fictional short by Chad A. Clark There were no words, nothing that they could think of to do or say, not even the stupid laughter which the alcohol would have normally provoked. All they could do was stand there and stare at the legs that were sticking out of the ground. It was as if someone had been planted there in the dirt up to their knees and then severed at the waist, leaving the lower half behind. There was even blood and other matter still oozing out from a cutting blow that looked fresh.

They took another simultaneous step forward when a scream ripped through the silence, vocalized rage that rained down on them from above. It was a woman descending down from the darkening sky above, a beautiful woman at that. Beautiful, save for the horrific row of teeth that were now visible from behind lips that were peeling back into a snarl. Beautiful if you didn’t notice the large, leathery wings sprouting out from behind her.

Beautiful if you didn’t notice the fact that she was completely missing the bottom half of her body.

They turned to run but immediately were taken up in her grasp. She hurled Freddie across the clearing where he landed roughly on his neck and went limp, showing no sign of movement. Her wings beat the air as she lifted David straight up with her, teeth sinking into his chest as she did so. He cried out but was already starting to drift away as his blood was drawn out into her in long, deep drinks. The world around him began to spin crazily and he vaguely realized that she had released him and the ground was now rushing back up at him.

As he lay there, lacking the strength to move any part of his broken frame, he watched her take Freddie apart before returning to the other half of her body, which was still standing tethered to the ground. The last thing he saw was her hovering in the air over her other half before settling down, reattaching and stepping out of the ground. With her newly regained limbs, she quietly moved onto the walking path where she strolled off into the swelling darkness of the woods around them.

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