A Short Story for your Halloween
Happy Halloween, goblins and ghouls!
In celebration of this awesomest of holidays, I have a new short story to share with you.
A Kiss with Teeth, a tale of Halloween-ish import, went live on Tor.com this morning. Here’s how it starts:
Vlad no longer shows his wife his sharp teeth. He keeps them secret in his gums, waiting for the quickened skip of hunger, for the bloodrush he almost never feels these days.
The teeth he wears instead are blunt as shovels. He coffee-stains them carefully, soaks them every night in a mug with ‘World’s Best Dad’ written on the side. After eight years of staining, Vlad’s blunt teeth are the burnished yellow of the keys of an old unplayed piano. If not for the stain they would be whiter than porcelain. Much, much whiter than bone.
White, almost, as the sharp teeth he keeps concealed.
You can read the rest on Tor.com.
Have a wonderful, and spooky, rest of the week. Remember: Skeleton Jack says, SMILE.
