Blood Grains Scream in Memories
Novella 22,040 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"That dying anchor said some mysterious ‘he’ was looking for her. Chakatie tried to think of who that could be. When she’d been an anchor in charge of her own land, she’d thought she’d been even-handed. But traveling with the day-fellows had revealed to her the painful reality of being on the receiving end of the grains’ anger and punishments—pains she’d once inflicted on far too many people to count."
Content warnings 3
body-horrordeathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.