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‘The Demeter’: (Flash Fiction)
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Published:February 2023
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Of course, the Count wouldn’t have left his land of phantoms without the Demeter. To us, it seems obvious that it would be a liminal space. The Goddess of Harvest that bore the daughter Persephone, the only one to call both the Underworld and the Earth her home. A fitting metaphor for the boat that carries the Count, another being that can call both his home.
But what is obvious to us means nothing to the sailors, and they dismiss this as easily as we dismiss them. They are nameless, mere chattel to the Count’s hunger. It’s not their screams or choked gasps over the bodies of their comrades that we remember, or the last words of the Captain as he lashes himself to wheel.
What we remember is the ship listing into harbour, its sails limp. The empty silence for those who embark after no heavy footsteps echo over the creaking wood. A ship that echoes other ships in its history, other abandoned ships found on the waves. Abandoned lighthouses, their light gone and doors left open, houses that moulder.
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