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Big Mother

ShortStory 4,991 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

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The narrator and her friends go fishing for snakehead in a stream in Singapore, but the biggest one is something more than just a fish.

Contemporary FantasyColonialismLyrical

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Magical RealismFriendshipMelancholicContemporaryBelongingFantasyFirst PersonLiteraryGrief And LossVoice DrivenBittersweet

Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.