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