Kɛrozin Lamp Kurfi
ShortStory 3,854 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"She tells the children to call her Kade Makasi, and if this was one of her stories, she’d describe herself as bent and wrinkled and spider-like for a touch of myth and poetry … but she’s none of these things … she’s tall, thick-browed, with two braided rivers of night on her head, and you’d have never guessed what she was: kurfi, dɛbul, demon, and that she stole my child."
Content warnings 1
mental-illness
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