On The Shore
“They’d both die for you, you know,” he said.
She watched as the man and the dog, floundering in the sand as though beached at low tide, laughed and barked in hoarse revelry.
“Does it scare you?” he asks.
“No. That I’d die for them, that scares me.”
He watches her watch the man and the dog.
“Feeling is more frightening than being felt for?”
“It’s more difficult to control,” she says, finally looking at her interrogator.
“Dying,” he says. “That’s the ultimate in losing control.”
“Not if you control how you die.”
Her pockets were already full of stones.
From Guest Contributor Peter Hynes
Peter’s stories have appeared in such publications as Flesh & Blood, The Malahat Review, Transversions, Dark Tales, Wicked Hollow, Rain Crow, Not One Of Us, Aiofe’s Kiss, Horror Library Vol 2, and On Spec.
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