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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Deep in the jungles of South America, a young man hears the wordless song of the Ixtabay at night and falls prey to a dangerous passion.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Orphans of the Night, 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2004

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Words: 3177
Reading time: 9-12 min.
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Young, I was so very young the night the Ixtabay called to me. The years have passed, my eyes have dimmed, my once-smooth face now bears a white and bristly beard, and the laughter of my grandchildren echoes faintly in the hollow well of my ears. But once I was young and heard her call.

The rains have come and gone many, many times since that mad moment I entered the night of the Ixtabay, but when the village is silent in sleep, when the hungry growl of the jungle cools to a soft murmur of satiation, when my heart is open to the spirit voices that rule the night--then do I hear her again, calling to me across the void of the tens of thousands of nights that I have endured without her.