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One Boot Tells Its Tail
by Alyson Faye

You stand naked
carved from moonshine,
your eyes oyster pearls
casting aside your
humane skin
for shimmering scales.

You have
led me
to this shore
bearing flowers,
a tangled posy
of ragwort and daisies
ripped from our
meadow-bed,

sweet, oh so sweet your breath

where we had lain
that morning
awash with lust and longing

transformed now into
my funeral wreath,
and you into sea-witch,
serpent-seductress,
whose hair coils tight
around my wrists,
whose tail froths the waves
and whose kiss

oh those lips
sweet mercy
Jesus save me 

suck the life from me
leaving  . . .

one boot upon the shore.

Fiction © Copyright Alyson Faye
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Alyson Faye:

The Lost Girl & Spindleshanks

The Lost Girl
A nailed-up door. An inheritance which comes with a ghost. A missing girl. A fifty-year-old mystery. Parapsychologist Berkley Osgood is hired to investigate. What he uncovers reveals secrets the living want to hide and the dead will never forgive.

Spindleshanks
Adam is having nightmares about a skeletal shadow figure, who he calls Spindleshanks. Soon his whole class are sharing the same nightmare. Adam’s dad, Rob, knows that Spindleshanks can’t be real. But is he? One terrible night Rob has to face his son’s nightmare creature and fight for his son’s life. What would you sacrifice to have your child back safe?

“A decent two-for-one. Alyson Faye brings the engaging and eerie in equal measure.” CC Adams – horror / dark fiction author

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