Lamia
ShortStory 3,887 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Lamia knows hunger. She has known it since the harvests withered, since water stopped falling from the sky, since the animals fled. Even so, she continued living with her family in the cabin on the riverbank. There were four of them: father, mother, brother, and Lamia."
Content warnings 3
body-horrorchild-deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
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