Dr Jacqueline Coombe

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815 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Creepy · Some Body to Love · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Perhaps the deer feed I had just set out that afternoon.

I was still frozen,

still trying to process the evidence of my eyes when the mountain goose reared their head back to call into the night the sound bore only the barest resemblance to a goose honk transformed by a human throat to a resonant shriek worse than any fox call

Penny fell immediately silent beside me, and I gripped the windowsill to stay upright.

All the hair rose on my arms and neck.

The beaked mouth was a horror, worse even than the maws of geese I had shot before.

Fangs and sharpened molars formed a tight, serrated edge along the inside of their jaw and their tongue.

bits of food had caught between them and they looked less like grain than shredded skin but then the mountain goose took flight they were no ethereal fey creature take-off was no easeful motion but laborious and flesh-bound the body was heavy but their wings seized the air and bore them up

The goose tucked their legs beneath them and flew off westward beyond the reach of my lamp.

Never had I seen something so lovely, so mesmerizing.

I let the curtain drop.

Penny had folded herself under the bed, and I knelt to coax her out.

After I settled us both back into bed, I lay for a long time, thinking of those wings and the shape coiled tightly beneath, beyond gender and definition.

I had given up hope of a body that felt like me, but in such a creature, it seemed real.

As I understood it, after poring over the rest of his journal the next morning, seemed logical.

Injure a mountain goose's wings so they were forced to walk to safety, then follow them to their nest.

Dad never got to follow through with his machinations, but he had done all the work for me.

I would find them.

I would give us both this gift.

In a few days, I had prepared all the necessary materials.

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