A Pleasing Shape

If beauty is truly skin deep, how easily might teeth find it?

A boy feasts through life, forever young, charmed by the beauty of destruction, pain and despair, waiting for more. No drug sates him; no excess thrills him. More. Accolyes follow him; death trails him. More. Through country and city, centuries and seconds. More. Until finally, escape and capture cnverge into the whisper of a name to rend screams from the world. More.

(This story was originally published in After Hours (Summer, 1994, USA) in a slightly different form.)

CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 nonfiction articles, and a big bunch of editing (magazines, short stories, and books). She is a publisher at Lucky Bat Books and runs Flying Hand Writing Services, both designed to empower writers to tell their stories in their own ways