To Kill a Language
ShortStory 832 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"1. To kill a language, you must first rip it from living throats. Don't look so askance; you knew it already. The dead can't speak unless called and the only way to prevent our enemies calling upon their own hordes of dead ancestors is to strip their path. So go on. Find a young speaker, soft and sure, charismatic."
Content warnings 2
sexual-violenceviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.