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It's Easy to Shoot A Dog

ShortStory 4,470 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

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On a cold October midnight, teenage Susanna takes her dog and a musket and sneaks away into the woods. Things happened ten years ago when she got the dog. Bad things. And now the reckoning is due.

Folk HorrorTraumaHistorical Europe

More tags 15

VisceralDark FantasySlow BurnTenseDarkLyricalLyrical ProseSacrificeMelancholicSurvivalBelongingFantasyLiteraryClose Third PersonVoice Driven

Content warnings 3

animal-harmchild-deathviolence

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