Leavetaking
Kate was cursed by her cousin on his deathbed to never stay. She and her cousin Bo didn’t hate each other—far from it. They’d grown up together: same small farming town in the inland northwest, population 394. So small that when Bo finished high school, he and his classmates each got a lamppost of their […] The post Leavetaking appeared first on Uncanny Magazine .
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