Listen to our audio presentation of “The Teratologist’s Brother” by Brandon H. Bell. Narrated by Lisa Shininger.
Brandon H. Bell
Brandon H. Bell’s writing has appeared in markets including The Lovecraft eZine, Hadley Rille Books, and Questioncopyright.org. He was the editor of Fantastique Unfettered magazine and the Torn Pages anthology. He is a husband, a father of daughters, and a Buddhist. He strives to be a good ally to GLBTQ and other under-represented folks. He is currently working on a novel about deicide and the posthuman condition in the Anthropocene.
The Teratologist’s Brother
“Sorry, sorry,” I said to her, then looked up and found the man-shaped thing with the huge head in our way. It startled me. I felt my brother so near to me in that moment. I smelled hash and heard his voice, speaking one of his koans. For a split-second I imagined myself in some vast desert, pouring out a bucket of dirty water.