From the Root
ShortStory 6,654 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
The narrator, a young regenitrix in Victorian London, tries to help an older one have her baby. For a regenitrix swiftly regrows any lost body parts, but childbirth is always fatal.
Content warnings 2
deathsexual-violence
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