Statement from the Silver-Taloned Monster Ravaging the Local Townspeople Tucker Leighty-Phillips
The Silver-Taloned Monster issues a public statement to the local
townspeople, addressing their concerns about his many acts of peeling
people's skin like string cheese. The statement is nailed to the community
bulletin board, presumably by the monster himself. The townspeople are
fearful of The Silver-Taloned Monster's many ritual killings and
flesh-feastings. They're not crazy about the skin peelings. The townspeople
hide whenever The Silver-Taloned Monster stomps into the village; taking
refuge in their closets, pulling coats and blouses like curtains; dirtying
their jeans in the crawl spaces beneath broken floor boards; slithering up
the roof top to maintain high ground. The Silver-Taloned Monster knows his
feastings have become more frequent, his hunger has expanded, that the
clean, careful cuts with which his silver talons tear flesh feel almost more
cruel than if he were lackadaisical about it. He doesn't have any plans of
stopping, but wants to assure the townspeople he hears their concerns. We're
a community, his statement reads, and I see you. I'm listening.
Tucker Leighty-Phillips has work in or coming from Passages North, The Forge, HAD, X-R-A-Y
and others. He's an MFA candidate in CW at ASU.
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