A Brief and Fearful Star
Carmen Maria Machado
Slate
06/27/18
2018
ShortStory
4,056 words
Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
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SlipstreamMortalityMidwest USA
More tags 17
Historical USAAmbiguous EndingHistorical FantasyColonialismMotherhoodMagical RealismLyricalElegiacSpeculative FictionDreadContemplativeLyrical ProseMemoryLiteraryGrief And LossFantasyFirst Person
Content warnings 3
deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
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