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Cinnamon Gate
2004
Orb Speculative Fiction Magazine, Sarah Endacott publisher, ed. Sarah Endacott

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Kahlil Gibran


The Sandman had come to hate the night.

Dark, always dark, the twisted matte of blacks and purples pressing in. Pressing down. And in these final hours before night gave way, apparently, to day (though he hadn't seen daylight for thousands of years), the sickly, milky grey of pre-dawn washed all nuance away. Gave to each shadow a gritty, ashen sameness.

He stood on the roof of an apartment block and watched as, twelve stories below, a shadow slid along the street. It danced and wove in streetlight. It stretched to look like a finger, accusing. Or perhaps beckoning. In its wake it dragged a man.

Worse and worse, the Sandman thought.

He liked men least of all.


Read the full story on Anna Tambour's Virtuous Medlars pages.

 

 


 

 

 

 

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