COTTONMOUTH
ShortStory 4,963 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"He finds her in his grandpa’s attic, in the Big House. The hatch has been locked up tight since the day Grant Dixon was born—twenty-two years of locked up tight—and long before. He used to ask about it, between the stories his Grandpa Dixon liked to tell. "
Content warnings 3
abuseslaveryviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.