Here Comes Your Man
Indrapramit Das, "Here Comes Your Man" in Screams From the Dark , ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor Publishing Group: 2022). Even the nice monsters are still monstrous! And in a monster's world, the nice guys still worship the god of masculinity and fundamentally misunderstand even their own emotions, not to mention others. See, I even made the story about him . There are plenty of other paradoxes and tensions that feed the horror of being human on full display in this story. Two that stand out: Aditya's weakness is that he doesn't want to be weak. And in the end, we see that Megha fears that the man she fears isn't there.