Liecraft
Novelette 8,788 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"For a long time now I’d been practicing liecraft five or six times before breakfast. I’d roll over to Khao’s side of the bed and murmur through the curls of hair winding around his ear: “Go back to sleep, it’s only just daybreak.” Other times I’d hide his slippers in the pantry, and as he searched everywhere for them..."
Content warnings 3
body-horrorchild-abuseviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.