After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland
ShortStory 5,127 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"After we kill our father but before we leave the island, we argue. Cal doesn’t want to go; he’s afraid of the water. Even after the rest of us outvote him two to one, he refuses to move, crouching on the ground, pressing the ruined side of his face into the earth, snarling whenever we try to touch him."
Content warnings 3
abusedeathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.