Marked by Bears
ShortStory 4,137 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"My brother was taken away by the bears to live with them when I was small; he existed only in the song that was sung about him. His song was sung in the summer, at Sundance, but also in the winter, on the darkest day, the day he was taken away. The trade meant continued peace with the bears and had been negotiated since his birth..."
Content warnings 2
body-horrorchild-death
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