And Now His Lordship Is Laughing
ShortStory 6,843 words Recommended by 7 award/anthology sources
In 1943 India, during the Bengal Famine, the Governor of Bengal tries to force an old woman to make a doll for his wife.
Content warnings 5
child-deathdeathracismviolencewar
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