The Ten Terrible Heads of Shi Xin Niao

Video Description: “The Ten Terrible Heads of Shi Xin Niao” Trailer. Duration, 45 seconds. “Dungeon of Shadows (seamless)” by Nicholas Jeudy. Digital drawing. A creature that looks like a bird with nine visible heads. The body is seen from the right side, wing feathers extended out, long tail feathers flowing back, and legs loosely folded. The colors and patterns of the bird appear like that of a golden pheasant. The color of the beaks differ between some of the heads. The heads are arrayed in different positions, some in profile, some looking and facing forward. The bird is surrounded by a crackling glowing energy. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Mythology,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “Ten terrified youths are abducted by a bird with ten terrible heads, who plans for them a doom worse than death.” Title card and tagline fade. Lines from the story appear in sequence in different positions and different colors: “In time, the transformation of their body spread to their heads. Separate they remained, but their heads grew feathers and beaks, and their bones and muscles cracked and tore, until all that remained of their prior selves were their human minds and their human voices, though even those were fading. Already, seven had lost their human voices. And four had lost their human minds.” Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. As the last line disappears, the story title appears at center, and a text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”