Killer-Extras: Flash Fiction
C.S.E. Cooney probes the malicious memoirs of a lovesick homicidal reptile!
Memoirs of a Dragon
To Her Lover, Saint George:
The Ways in Which I’d Kill You
By C.S.E. Cooney
First. Stretch you in an empty picture frame. A Leonardo sketch
in the flesh.
Second. Pierce the palm bones: pisiform, triquetrum, scaphoid
and lunate. Speared and splintered by slender nails driven
indelibly in with a small silver hammer.
Then – your perfect feet. Your goddamned, elegant, arched,
sensitive, tactless, furtive feet. Flayed. With a straight
razor. Basted in quicklime, lemon juice and sea salt, scrubbed
with boar bristles and a steel sponge, set upon by fire ants,
poured over with honey, coated in sugar crystals and fed to
rats, the rats, the napalm rats. I’ll watch them wither under
chemical fire.
This is how I’d kill you.
Moving on.
Your legs I will shave with something rusty and paint in slow
acid. Extremities do not concern me.
And could I bear to destroy the cool dark blue in your arms. The
rivers and ribbons turning septic so effortlessly?
Could I tear with my teeth the thunderstorm in your throat, the
whirlpool of your dying heartbeat?
I think you’d not make a sound.
The rest of this story is no longer on our website, but will be available for purchase Summer 2009 with the release of our annual anthology!
Killer-words: Year One
Tiny Slices of Darkness
It will feature all the fiction stories posted on the site this year (including the rest of this one), brand new stories, a year in review, some of our best articles, original art, and more!
If you are interested in pre-ordering copies of the book please send an email to
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Bio Bits:
The irrepressible C.S.E.
Coony is a a poet, play-write, and author of devilish tales.
She has been published in The Book of Dead Things.
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