BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE
Novelette 7,892 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"A woman drags a white doe out of the ice room; it hangs from the ceiling rails by two brass hooks, one caught beneath its pelvis and the other behind the scapulae. As she pulls, the metal wheels whine. When she works in her lab, she is a butcher. She lays the doe on her bench and makes an incision from sternum to pelvis."
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