{"id":1917,"date":"2012-02-21T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethingwicked.co.za\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2014-02-15T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T23:02:29","slug":"of-hearts-and-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somethingwicked.co.za\/magazine\/2012\/02\/21\/of-hearts-and-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Hearts and Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Nick Wood
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From Issue 18 (Feb 2012) <\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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We are amongst the last of the last, the \u2018do-not-dies\u2019 as the dead now call us. They follow us, the dead do, whispering and pulling at our ears and hair. The other two don\u2019t notice, although they do see and comment on the occasional cock of my head, as I listen without comprehension to dry and meaningless whispers from shadowy lips, the occasional repetition of that one phrase, all I can make out – \u2018do-not-dies\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

Read more in Issue 18<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Nick Wood
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Nick Wood<\/h2>\n

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Nick Wood<\/em> is a South African clinical psychologist, currently living in London.<\/p>\n

He has had short stories published in Albedo One, Interzone, Infinity Plus, PostScripts<\/em> and The World SF Blog<\/em> amongst others. He has also had a YA SF book published in South Africa, entitled ‘The Stone Chameleon.’\u00a0 Nick is currently studying for an MA in SF\/F (Creative Writing) at Middlesex University. He currently has a working draft of a South African alternative history novel, entitled ‘Azanian Bridges’, in which apartheid endures until ‘now’…<\/p>\n

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by Nick Wood
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We are amongst the last of the last, the \u2018do-not-dies\u2019 as the dead now call us. They follow us, the dead do, whispering and pulling at our ears and hair. The other two don\u2019t notice, although they do see and comment on the occasional cock of my head, as I listen without comprehension to dry and meaningless whispers from shadowy lips, the occasional repetition of that one phrase, all I can make out – \u2018do-not-dies\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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