It's Easy to Shoot A Dog
ShortStory 4,470 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
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.
Content warnings 3
animal-harmchild-deathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.