Of Men and Monsters
He stopped, his face going slack, then he tipped back his head and screamed.
One of the creature’s tentacles was wrapped around his good leg, and its mouth—with those rows of razor-sharp teeth—latched onto the meaty part of his thigh. He looked down, his expression a hideous combination of pain and surprise. He fell to his knees, and the tentacles gyrated like serpents before taking him in their cold embrace. He went face down in the swirling tide and the creature slithered up his body. He tried to crawl toward me, relentless in his murderous rage, until the creature’s mouth found the back of his throat. His eyes found me. I’d like to think I saw regret, remorse, something in them. But they
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