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“Are you a hypnotist?” “I happen to be a good storyteller.”
And there were, and still are, tribes who are not human, who identify with humans in similar ways. Who take the shape of humans, just as humans took the shape of animals by wearing skins.”
“Did you keep the kitten?” I ask him. “I ate it.”
Sometimes intimacy is the only way real magic works.”
Intimacy lies in the body and the soul, in scent, in touch and taste and sound. A man whose name you
I bent his neck and broke it so he cried no longer
Makedon dashed that cherub’s head with a rock. A small mercy that he did not play with
“A dead man taught me, after I ate him, just as the Christ taught his disciples the love of their God after they ate him.”
I drank, the meat and bone between my fangs, the soul trapped, making my entire second self bristle in waves.
He is an insignificant wastrel, but he, too, had love in his heart. My companions tasted it, but barely lingered on it. For centuries they have consumed men and women and children, and they find these opiates of emotion pleasing but unremarkable.
The last time Gévaudan and I fucked, it was upon the bed of the Indus, our second selves silted yellow, reddening the water as fang and claw pierced holes in hide and mud.
“And what is your opinion on human literature, Gévaudan?” “All the same. Litanies of arrogance.”
I don’t tell him about the men I slept with on occasion before Shayani, usually fellow students during my undergraduate days, sometimes strangers.
We are the devouring, not the creative.
You wanted to be her, so that I might love you back. You wanted to give Cyrah to me, in you, so that I might love her, and you.>>
In Ragnarök, there must be violence before renewal.
“It’s my child, too, you son of a bitch,”
He was, after all, trying to become you, in a way. You
It has been years. It has been even longer since I’ve had sex with a man.
What happens when you drink the semen of a shape-shifter? Do you give yourself over to wishful thoughts, to dreams of transformation?
