Chapters tagged monster girl

by Zeebop

Chapter 55

Latoya found another black candle. She held it up, and then took something from her pocket. It was a small curl of bronze, tapering to a point. Thicker than a pig's tail, but not too dissimilar. "Myra MacGregor's daughter Lyra gave this to me," she said. "She was born with this...

by Zeebop

Chapter 64

"Giants," Jason said, cupping a candle in his hands. "Were different back in the day. Before basketball and the NBA, before the Guinness Book of World Records and all that. People tended to be shorter, though not as much as you'd think. Bad food, not enough of it. Today, seven fe...

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Chapter 67

"Sixty-six," Roberta said as she picked up a candle two-thirds burned down. From her pocket, she drew a notebook, and flipped it open, holding the candle close to read from it. "How far we've come, and so far to go. I want to tell you of a story that haunted me, since I first ran...

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Chapter 70

Miu stood and stepped out to find a candle in the growing dark. The points of light were shrinking, and in the darkness, her white kimono and mask seemed to reflect more of the light. She sat, once again, at the foot of the shrine, and began simply: "This is the tale of > THE W...

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Chapter 77

"Today, the bodies of the dead are cremated before they are interred in this cemetery," Miu said, as she found one of the remaining candles. "Yet before that, when bodies were buried whole, the families feared the predations of > THE GRAVEROBBER A shadow crept over the wall in...

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Chapter 100

Anya drew forth the book again. The one bound in human skin. The one with a nipple jutting forth from its cover. "If this is going to be my last story of the night," she said. "Then I would like to read you something. It's an old, old story, translated from language to language....

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Chapter 101

No one moved. Asenath gave a smile as she held the stub of a candle in both hands. The sole light in the darkness. The air was still, like the night itself was holding its breath. Waiting to hear the last story...and whatever came after. "Like the others, my last story is a pers...