Samira Daukoru
Bio
22. They/them. You can contact me at samiradaukoru.com, or follow me on Twitter: @samiradaukoru.
Stories (6/0)
Inside
Shae woke up in a room so dark she feared that she'd gone blind. She blinked hard, tasted blood, felt her stomach roil in response. She tried to get up, but the ache in her head became a screaming, stabbing mass of pain. She collapsed, gasping, and tried not to cry out.
By Samira Daukoru3 years ago in Horror
The Little Black Book
In the grand scheme of things, there were much worse ways to spend the day than picking up a notebook from routine repairs. It helped that the local bookbinder ran his shop just down the street from my apartment building. I would pop in, drop off my notebook, and in a few weeks I'd get a call to come pick it up. I got such a call this morning, and I had enough free time to stop by the following afternoon.
By Samira Daukoru3 years ago in Criminal
Bellyache
Dinner at Mom and Dad's can be a tense affair, but the sound of eating Mom's cooking tends to hide the worst of the silences. I spear a small slice of beef with my fork and raise it delicately to my mouth. It's so tender that it almost seems to melt over my tongue.
By Samira Daukoru3 years ago in Horror
If This, Then That: Fascinating Horror and Associated Channels
Media consumption is an exercise in associations. When you finish watching a new movie or show, the memories you formed follow you to the next piece of media you consume. (Accurately speaking, the process doesn't stop; it's the next piece, and the next, and the next). The more media you consume, the bigger this web of impressions and experiences becomes. The bigger the web becomes, the more connections you're able to propagate. You start to find conceptual similarities between the media pieces that attract you, and as time progresses, your ability to communicate these similarities improves. This ability is foundational to the art of creating an effective, associative media recommendation: the art of 'if this, then that.' In this essay, it's precisely what I hope to do. My media choice is a lesser-known YouTube series whose creator goes by the username, 'Fascinating Horror.' Henceforth, I will use his username to refer directly to the series.
By Samira Daukoru3 years ago in Horror
Catgirl
"Catgirl, do a TikTok dance," Joshua says to the thing standing in front of us. It seems to perk up at the command. With a happy-sounding "Nya!" it curls its hands in imitation of cat paws. It sticks its tongue out, licks at the air, then shakes its hips to music that isn't actually there.
By Samira Daukoru3 years ago in Futurism
Nausea
I don't produce a lot of poetry, but when I do, I like to write about nausea. I suppose 'like' isn't the most precise term; I 'like' to write about nausea the way a dog might 'like' to lick its own skin raw. All the same, there's an attraction to nausea that surfaces again and again in my work, and not always an existential nausea, either. When I say nausea, I mean it in its most somatic form: a certain internal quality of unsteadiness, inseparable from the threat of vomiting; spectral in word form but unmistakable in embodiment.
By Samira Daukoru3 years ago in Poets
