The architecture of the Minotaurs heart is ancient. Rough hewn and many chambered, his heart is a plodding laborious thing, built for churning through the millennia. But the blood it pumpsthe blood it has pumped for five thousand years, the blood it will pump for the rest of his lifeis nearly human blood. It carries with it, through his monsters veins, the weighty, necessary, terrible stuff of human existence: fear, wonder, hope, wickedness, love. But in the Minotaurs world it is far easier to kill and devour seven virgins year after year, their rattling bones rising at his feet like a sea of cracked ice, than to accept tenderness and return it.
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About Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break.