Asphalt, River, Mother, Child
ShortStory 7,016 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources
Mebuyen doesn’t get many lost souls anymore—modern Filipinos have moved on—so when a bunch of young people start showing up whom she can’t send along, it’s time to visit the Earth and learn what’s going on.
Content warnings 3
child-deathdeathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.