Sometimes You're the Windscreen, Sometimes You're the Fly

Toasted Cake 224: Sometimes You're the Windscreen, Sometimes You're the Fly by Michelle Ann King

Episode #224! In which we try to score points, sometimes violently.

On Monday evening, my sister got decapitated by a tube on the Northern Line at King's Cross

This story first appeared in Outlook Springs.

This story has a content warning for a darkly humorous discussion of very many different kinds of death.

Michelle Ann King was born in East London and now lives in Essex. She has published stories of fantasy, science fiction, and horror in over ninety different magazines and anthologies, including Interzone, Strange Horizons, and Black Static. Her favourite author is Stephen King (sadly, no relation), and she also loves zombies, Las Vegas, and good Scotch whisky. Her first two short story collections are available in ebook and paperback from Amazon and other online retailers. See transientcactus.co.uk for details.

Original airdate: May 12, 2019