Fandom: Stoker
Rating: M/R
Length: 100 words
Content notes: references to past canonical major character death (murder), callous reflections on bodies and decomposition, no sexual content
Author notes: The title is from SCIENCE FICTION by Les Murray and ON LEAVING THE BODY TO SCIENCE by Claudia Emerson.
Summary: In which India thinks about her uncle.



India doesn’t think, much, about her uncle’s body. Meat is so much meat, after all, once you’ve wrung the life out of it.

(She takes another lick of ice cream, the white melted drips trickling down her wrist to gather on her elbow.)

But, sometimes, she thinks about the science of it, the maggots and whatever else nibbles at a body sack of bones, away in the hushed dark of the ground.

(She takes her shoes off and wades barefoot through the thin rim of the ocean on the sandy beach shore.)

But, after all, he’s dead.

(India keeps living.)