A Lullaby of Anguish
ShortStory 6,400 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"We used to cage them in the tide pools, when they were still small enough to capture in our little hands. Pull them out and snap photos that we could pretend to sell to magazines just like Papa. Them, gasping for breath, unable to see, fins fluttering. We would photograph until they began to loosen, go limp."
Content warnings 4
abusebody-horrordeathviolence
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