Blood Is Another Word for Hunger
ShortStory 6,968 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
When her master dies in the American Civil War, a teen-age slave girl murders the rest of his family to gain her freedom, but she unwittingly opens a door to the spirit world, and she has to deal with the thing that comes through.
Content warnings 5
body-horrordeathgoreslaveryviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.