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Halloween Countdown 2018, Day 5
Oct. 5th, 2018 06:22 amToday I bring you a very short but powerful story: “Cherry Wood Coffin” by Eugenia M. Triantafyllou from Apex Magazine.
Here is a teaser:
The voices begin three days before someone is to die. The coffin-maker wakes up covered in sweat. He has been talking in his sleep again, his wife says, in the language of the dead.
He looks at her under the waning light of the candle. Edna’s face is pallid and lined with a liquid transparency. Dark circles nestle under her eyes. He kisses her cheek and goes to work in the middle of the night.
The coffin must be of mahogany, he knows that already. An important person will die, a person of wealth and power. He will figure out the rest as he goes.
The coffin whispers louder and more coherently as the days pass.
Read the complete story here.
(Art by FateAmenableToChange.)
Here is a teaser:
The voices begin three days before someone is to die. The coffin-maker wakes up covered in sweat. He has been talking in his sleep again, his wife says, in the language of the dead.
He looks at her under the waning light of the candle. Edna’s face is pallid and lined with a liquid transparency. Dark circles nestle under her eyes. He kisses her cheek and goes to work in the middle of the night.
The coffin must be of mahogany, he knows that already. An important person will die, a person of wealth and power. He will figure out the rest as he goes.
The coffin whispers louder and more coherently as the days pass.
Read the complete story here.
(Art by FateAmenableToChange.)