Genres: Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 645: Chloe Chew and the Museum of Undead Art
Show Notes
Image by Camila Denleschi from Pixabay
Chloe Chew and the Museum of Undead Art
by Olivia B. Chan
In Chloe Chew’s suffocating hometown, there’s only one place fit for necromancy: the parking lot outside Em’s motel, where summer heat wavers above cracked pavement, blurring the darkness on the horizon. Forest fires have driven away all the tourists, so Chloe’s safe to prepare her resurrection materials between the yellow lines.
She presses her hands to the torn-up canvas as it flaps in the wind off the highway, Asperthbell’s skyline rippling in its peeling acrylic. Her victim is a painting she found in the back of Miss Plent’s classroom, wedged between old answer keys, entirely forgotten. Perfect for a resurrection. She recognizes Asperthbell’s gas station in its streaks of red, but besides that the painting’s portrayal of her hometown is unrecognizable—no ash. No smoke.
The painting’s ghost trembles in her hands. (Continue Reading…)
