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To Kill a Language

ShortStory 832 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source

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"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."

Folk HorrorColonialismSecond Person

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DreadVisceralDark FantasyGuiltUnsettlingFragmentedBodily AutonomyDarkSecondary WorldLyrical ProseMemoryFantasyIdentityVoice Driven

Content warnings 2

sexual-violenceviolence

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