Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #19 October 2015 | Page 12

Dead Woman’s
Hand:
A Carolina
Daemonic Short
Story

Part 2
By Brian Barr
“If you were a slaver, I would have let them
kill you.”
Bana didn’t doubt the black woman’s words.
The creatures she called zombies were most intimidating, the bodies of previous intruders and Christine’s
former enemies reanimated as mindless guard dogs.
With her lantern held before her, Christine
guided the way up a mountainous jungle path. The
zombies followed.
Bana recognized the woman as an African
with short cropped hair and striking brown eyes.
Bana knew quite a few Africans in her pirate family,
brothers she would never