I feel my teeth ache with the thought of them, the living, the sweating, the vibrance of pulse beneath paper-thin skin. I am a hunger, a beast with velvet intentions, breath heavy with the scent of iron and salt. I am made for the crack of bones, for the tear of sinew that sings between my teeth, for the wet heat that spills from their open mouths as I take them into me, one bite at a time.
My tongue remembers them all, the soft fat of lovers, the bitter sinew of the fearful, the taut muscle of the defiant. I crave the marrow trapped in their hollowed bones, the wet slip of their life on my tongue, and I can feel myself peeling away from the human veneer, snapping at the edges like old leather, teeth glistening, eyes wide and blackened with a hunger that curls and coils and devours me from within.
I dream in red. I breathe in the stench of sweat and blood, the perfume of terror as I tear through tendon, as I plunge my fingers deep into the warmth of their unguarded centers. They think themselves immortal in their thudding, thrumming vitality, but I know better. I know the fragility of human skin, how it gives way with a whisper beneath my nails, how the crack of a spine is like a symphony in the dark.
The hunger builds, relentless, a fire in my gut, a howl in my bones. I taste their lives before I even see them, the metallic sweetness blooming behind my lips, the pulse of their warmth like a beacon, calling me closer, urging me to peel away the flesh that keeps them from me. I have forgotten the feel of my own heartbeat, but theirs, theirs is a drumbeat in my ears, a pulse in my teeth, a feast waiting to be made.
I do not just crave, I consume. I am the gnash and grind of jaw, the splintering of ribs, the slick, wet, visceral slide of flesh to throat. I am the violent choir of muscle and bone, the crescendo of a scream muffled by the wetness of my mouth, the grotesque grace of a life undone, devoured, made part of me. I am the hunger that cannot be sated, the endless, gnawing, ever-thirsting maw of a beast too human to be forgiven, too lost to be saved.








