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kittiwakeYou made us hurt each other, and ourselves. You made us blood each other, when you fought in front of your looking glasses. You ignored them, and us, but we could not resist. When you conducted your knifings, your shootings dead. When you slit your own throats and watched the blood leak out of you, and out of us. We stabbed each other, for your vainglorious whims, and accompanied you in suicide. And where your mortuaries were glazed, you trapped us there, and made us rot with you. From "The
Tain".
This book contains fantasy and horror short stories, plus the novella "The Tain". My least favourites of the stories were "Different Skies" which was quite a scary and unpleasant tale, and "Familiar", which I shouldn't really have read while eating my lunch. My favourite was "'Tis the Season", which takes place at a time when Christmas has been privatised, so unless you buy a very expensive licence, you aren't allowed to sing carols, put your presents under a Christmas Tree, or even wish anybody a Marry Christmas! I also very much enjoyed "The Tain", which is based on an idea from a story by Borges.
Tain".
This book contains fantasy and horror short stories, plus the novella "The Tain". My least favourites of the stories were "Different Skies" which was quite a scary and unpleasant tale, and "Familiar", which I shouldn't really have read while eating my lunch. My favourite was "'Tis the Season", which takes place at a time when Christmas has been privatised, so unless you buy a very expensive licence, you aren't allowed to sing carols, put your presents under a Christmas Tree, or even wish anybody a Marry Christmas! I also very much enjoyed "The Tain", which is based on an idea from a story by Borges.
