August Fiction

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It's August! And that means a new story at GigaNotoSaurus. This month, it's "This Strange Way of Dying" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Georgina met Death when she was ten. The first time she saw him she was reading by her grandmother’s bedside. As Georgina tried to pronounce a difficult word, she heard her grandmother groan and looked up. There was a bearded man in a top hat standing by the bed. He wore an orange flower in his buttonhole, the kind Georgina put on the altars on the Day of the Dead.

The man smiled at Georgina with eyes made of coal.

Read and enjoy!