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How the Girls Came Home

ShortStory 5,204 words

Read at Uncanny ↗

"The shoes are leather with delicate lines and pointy toes. Elegant shoes for elegant feet. They might have suited her too if she had yesterday’s feet. Chicken’s feet. But today her feet are that of an otter’s, stubby and covered in wet, glistening fur. They are webbed with skin. Not quite a duck and not a ferret either."

Folk HorrorRevengeHistorical Europe

More tags 15

Fairy Tale RetellingDreadDark FantasySlow BurnFriendshipDefiantTenseBodily AutonomyFound FamilyDarkLyrical ProseFantasyClose Third PersonIdentityCharacter Driven

Content warnings 3

body-horrorgoreviolence

Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.