Late the next night a noise roused me from my sleep—wailing and cursing and then banging, more banging than ever, both fists full-force against the plaster. Filtered through the sleep haze, I couldn’t make sense of the commotion.

Rion Amilcar Scott has a new short story out, “Night of the Living,” part of Entropy magazine’s “Of Monsters” series, which explores through flash fiction what it means to be monstrous.