Saturday, April 16, 2016

A TO Z CHALLENGE 2016 -- NUKEKUBI

Blood! Blood! 

The cry rips through your mind as you hunger for it.  Your craving must be fulfilled.  You need it.

A lone man walks down the street.  You grin as you chase him down.

He turns, cries out in fright, and raises his arms to fight you off.  Only, you are faster and more agile than him.  You have the upper hand.

You pierce his neck with your teeth, drinking the hot, coppery liquid in ravenous gulps.

Your craving has been met.



This, my friends, is a Nukekubi.  Nukekubi (removable neck, missing neck) is a creature that does not know that she is a creature.  She is a vampiric version of the Rokurokubi. , which translates roughly to pulley neck.

By day she is a normal woman.  It's at night that her head detaches and and goes flying about looking for victims.

The woman can pass this to their daughter.

Some say that there are lines or wrinkles around the neck where the head comes off the body.

9 comments:

  1. Detachable heads? I'll be looking at women's necks now! :)

    Susan A Eames from
    Travel, Fiction and Photos

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  2. Interesting twist on the vampire legend. Nice to read it from the monster's viewpoint, too.

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  3. That is an interesting twist on vampires. Love it.

    ~Ninja Minion Patricia Lynne aka Patricia Josephine~
    Story Dam
    Patricia Lynne, Indie Author

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  4. Wow... Somehow the fact that you can be a monster and not know about it makes it all the creepier...

    @TarkabarkaHolgy from
    The Multicolored Diary
    MopDog

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  5. My worst nightmare come to being. A headless woman, although I should be glad that she's not dead. Still horrific! Well done!

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  6. A monster not knowing she is a monster - very creepy!
    Sophie
    Sophie's Thoughts & Fumbles | Wittegen Press | FB3X

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  7. You have to wonder if it's better not to know you're a monster. Although I imagine the shock when someone figures out it's you could be terrible.
    Tasha
    Tasha's Thinkings | Wittegen Press | FB3X (AC)

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    1. The legend I read about had the woman begging to die when she found out.

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