Islands off the Coast of Capitola, 1978
Novelette 13,298 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
You are a lonely ten-year-old boy living in an old house with your mom when a man claiming to be your uncle arrives and strange things start to happen.
Content warnings 2
abusesubstance-use
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.