Listen to our audio presentation of “With Lips Sewn Shut” by Kristi DeMeester. Narrated by Veronica Giguere.
Kristi DeMeester
Kristi DeMeester is the author of Beneath, a novel published by Word Horde Publications, and Everything That’s Underneath, a short fiction collection from Apex Books. Her short fiction has appeared in approximately forty magazines, including Ellen Datlow’s The Year’s Best Horror Volume 9, Stephen Jones’ Best New Horror, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1, 3, and 5, in addition to publications such as Black Static, Pseudopod, and several others. In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first. Find her online at www.kristidemeester.com.
PODCAST EP. 40: DAMNATIO AD BEASTIAS
Listen to our audio presentation of “Damnatio ad beastias” by Kristi DeMeester. Narrated by Mahvesh Murad.
With Lips Sewn Shut
My brothers imagined themselves the first to speak without mouths…
The Lightning Bird
Taking it up, she smiled into the storm creeping into the kitchen. Lightning cracked in the distance, and the room flooded with ghostly light. The thunder drummed against the house, and she stood and gave herself over to the sound.
Mothers Who Consume
I don’t remember the first time I caught my mother in a lie. There are years and enough broken truth to construct something that used to look like my life in between then and now. I think about the girl child I was often.
Damnatio Ad Beastias
The blue pills came first. Robin’s egg blue and smelling faintly chemical when Madeline opened the bottle. Then yellow, and a green the color of scum that grew on the pond her landlord called a “water feature.” Finally, a striated capsule all violet and cream. Madeline had liked that one. It made her feel like she was swallowing flower petals.
