I ran a Challenge on www.theprose.com last month to write a horror story with an unconventional villain. Here is the second co-winner - Best Story

Siren Song

Once we were song birds in search
of kidnapped daughters,
but our gifted wings now rot like sailors on
this cursed rock.
We have nothing left to feed our guests but
their predecessors and our own goose bumped flesh.
Call us home wreckers with no grasp on
keeping homes-
I hear it’s common for those who can’t do,
to imitate and destroy.

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