"I am not here for your convenience. I am not here for you to lift me out of the shadows, only to clothe me in silver wings, the scales of a fish, and a serpent’s tail. I am not here to breathe fire at your command, or to be darkly beautiful as I fly before the sun, or for you to permit a fool to eat my heart.'
"I am not here to serve you."
Taken from the December 2007 issue of Susurrus, Greer Woodward's horror piece is about a man's attempt to channel an angy, sinister force.
8pod 002 "KFC & the Souls of the Faithful Departed" By Dale Wisely
Read by Jenn Book Haselswerdt uploaded 07/14/08
This story appeared in the December 2007 issue of Susurrus Magazine. It explains what finally happened to that building near the mini-mall that started out as a fast food joint, housed a string of Chinese restaurants, and is now vacant. Read by Jenn Book Haselswerdt. Dale Wisely runs the online fiction 'zine Right Hand Pointing.
"Phillip wasn’t thinking of Mogadishu when he saw Karen’s long legs swing out from her booth at The Flowerpot Diner. In fact, at no point in this story does he think of Mogadishu. The list of things Phillip doesn’t think of in this story is long—long as Karen’s legs—and includes Mogadishu, Feng Shui, Hill Stations, falafel, cuts in overseas staffing by news organizations, Residential Schools, buffalo, the Khyber Pass, smallpox, paisley, salmon and the Bikini Atoll."
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