Unsavory: An Indigenous Horror Short Story

By Cathy Smith

Can a dog turn into a vampire if it bites a vampire?

 

Loyal Rez dog Gertrude saves her human Doreen from becoming a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman statistic.

 

Doreen starts to think her neighbor was more than a creep, when Gertrude develops an allergy to sunlight and starts to crave raw meat, the bloodier the better.

 

Will she have to put her loyal companion down?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cathy Smith
• Release date: Jul 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393442769

Cathy Smith

Cathy Smith is a Mohawk writer who lives on a Status Reservation on the Canadian Side of the Border on Turtle Island (North America). She is proud of her people’s heritage and also has an interest in the myths and legends of other peoples and cultures, and modern fantasy and science fiction, which is often derived from past myths and often acts as myths for modern times.

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Unsavory: An Indigenous Horror Short Story

Doreen Van Every came from the Rez and no place felt like a home without a dog. She wished she could’ve afforded a bigger yard for her pet dog Gertrude. However, she got Gertrude before she got the house in a suburb off the Rez and had to make do with what she could afford.

Gertrude was mostly a German Shepherd. Doreen considered her a full Rez dog despite her blood quantum. Rez dogs were the tough mutts on the Indian reservation she lived on. Some people got purebreds as pets, but most of her people preferred sturdy mutts.

Another carryover from Rez life was the fact she trusted Gertrude more than house alarms. She figured such an attitude was traditional to her people. They’d always prefer their canine protectors to burglar alarms. Gertrude proved her worth when Doreen’s neighbor came over.

She saw Gertrude’s barking as both an alarm and a doorbell. That’s why