The Kind Things We Made

Words By Natalia Theodoridou, Art By Daniel Reneau

When we made them, they were mere bundles of light and flesh. They couldn’t speak, we thought, because we didn’t make them for speaking. At first they had no faces, because we didn’t make them so they could look upon ours. We made them so we could reap from them what we needed—a heart, a liver, a pound of flesh….

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Natalia Theodoridou

Natalia Theodoridou is a media & cultural studies scholar, the dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers (@AdriftPM), and a writer of strange stories. Her writing has appeared in KROnline, Clarkesworld, Neon, Ninth Letter, Litro, and elsewhere. She is currently based in Devon, UK. Find out more at her website, www.natalia-theodoridou.com, or come say hello @natalia_theodor on Twitter.

Daniel Reneau

Daniel is a Denver-based illustrator skilled in digital and traditional mediums, and specializes in horror, fantasy, science fiction and comic book illustration. He is the co-creator of the graphic novel Zombiraq, a winner of the 2013 L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Award, and a graduate of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Learn more at danielbdemented.carbonmade.com.

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