Cythia Ward has long been publishing fiction with
Wildside Press’s magazines and anthologies—
and now she is sharing some of her favorite
authors and stories with Black Cat readers.
Cythia Ward has long been publishing fiction with
Wildside Press’s magazines and anthologies—
and now she is sharing some of her favorite
authors and stories with
readersThe tourist squats with her handful of peanuts on the very spot where, so long ago, the bewitched spoon beat Ku’uk Atan to death. It was no special spoon, just coarse carved wood, the same one Ku’uk Atan had used to stir our corn porridge every day. But the gods make wicked allies of whatever they like, and so it was with the fatal spoon.
The peanuts are sumptuous in their deep-red skins, and the tourist woman is slow and easy, the da
