The Morning Wood Tree

by Siggy Shade

“You’re exactly what this family needs. A new injection of life.”

It’s his mother. I just caught my fiancé breastfeeding from his mother.

You love this.” “Is that bad?” “It is... different. Every human I have encountered has died in agony. You are the first to feel such pleasure.”

“You did this for me?” The mannequin pauses and looks me full in the face. “Of course. No one has made me feel so alive in my entire three-thousand years of existence.”

“Everything about you is beautiful,” he mumbles around my nipple. “Your stories, your mind, your taste. You are more majestic than any creature in the forest, more nourishing than the earth, and shine brighter than the sun. I will never let you go.”