Size / Zoom
Cecily grabbed a shard from the mirror, traced an unsteady line along the flesh of her wrist. Scars and metal piercings adorned her arms where she’d cut herself before. “They demand the spilling of blood,” Granduncle would always say, when he bothered to notice her at all. “They envy us, you see, and covet the iron flowing freely in our veins.”
Podcast: Download (Duration: 24:13 — 16.64MB)
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSS | More
Read “To the Gods of Time and Engines, a Gift” by Dean Wells, in Issue #80
Read Comments on this Story (4 Comments)
If you liked this podcast, you may also like:
Return to Issue #82
Return to Audio Fiction