The Shape of Family – Part Thirteen

Tuesday is the day for words placed sequentially in order to have meaning from a fictional standpoint. It’s time for the weekly entry into the lives of shapeshifters!

Last week the bandersnatch escaped with the twins, leaving Claire and her Winged Riders – as well as Sadie – injured and lost in his den. We’re following that devilish bandersnatch this week, so get your hate stares on.

<- Part Twelve – Family

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The Shape of Family

Part Thirteen – Worship

by Rick Cook Jr

A setback, a setback. It’s only a setback, he thought. Twisting through the woods, shifting constantly to carry the girls. Pushing  himself harder than he should with his injuries.

Injured by a mutt. An abomination.  The bitch. The shapeshifting bitch.

But it was okay. It would be okay once he got to the church.

The sun was setting. That was good. He could secure his church and fill it with bodies.

He reached the edge of the churchyard, set way back in the woods, but not far from Stalbridge proper. And though the girls fought him, they couldn’t hurt him. Not in this form. But they cursed and cried out and he threw them to the ground in the yard, scoffing. Continue reading

The Shape of Family – Part Ten

It’s Tuesday and we all know by now that means we’re gonna see what some shapeshifters are up to! Today we’re back on the bandersnatch wagon, who you’ll recall is preparing a mating ritual.

<- Part Nine – Rally

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The Shape of Family

Part Ten – Visceral

by Rick Cook Jr

The creature known as the bandersnatch stared at the girl, the twin, the mirror. She was unconscious, would be until the ritual began. The other had escaped too easily. This one would not survive the birth of his brood, and it was up to him to decide which of his children received the final offering of their mother.

Which could prove him or herself in the opening moments? He relished the thought.

And yet he was not done. There were other ingredients necessary, and he had only days to prepare. He left the girl in his den, wondering if the other might come back. Continue reading