Part Two of our queer epic switchblade-and-sorcery novel, Those Who Create and Destroy, is here, with a new chapter free to read every Monday and Friday! ✨
In today’s new chapter, “Who Doesn’t Love a Good Dismemberment,” Fabiana starts taking control of Rory’s dreams.
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CHAPTER
TWENTY-NINE
“Who Doesn’t Love a Good Dismemberment”
story by Mabel Harper & Emrys Webb
written by Emrys Webb
One thing Fabiana’s dad had taught her was that tortured people’s dreams were like needles on broken records, stumbling over and over the same jagged scars in a hellish loop.
Fabi’s own most frequent recurring nightmare was of the day the Auctoritas Magicae had taken her parents. There was no mystery to be unraveled there. That was the day that had wrecked her life, and she knew it.
Rory was a different story. He had a few things going on, to the point it was all kind of hard to tease apart.
There was some really early childhood stuff—deeply buried, didn’t seem to come up too-too often, and Fabi never went digging for it. One thing in particular she refused to touch—the one time it bubbled to the surface, put it right back where she found it and sealed it off tight, in her own mind as well as his (she unfortunately couldn’t erase her factual knowledge of the thing, but she could ban it from her dreams). If she were being practical, it was almost surely something she could have used as part of the campaign to win Rory over. But Fabi had her limits…had a sensitive stomach when it came to certain kinds of things.
Besides, there was so much else in Rory’s dreamscape she could play with.
FORM AND VOID 