Compass Rose, Running
ShortStory 4,414 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"You ever love a place more than people? Mama Patch’s house held me and all my running and snooping without ever forcing me to slow down or stay put. I could run from the rafters down the bang-bang spiral case, then sideways through the six rooms of varying elegance and molder into the rotten room’s maw of jagged boards..."
Content warnings 3
homophobiasexual-violenceviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.