Monsters Never Leave You
ShortStory 6,668 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
Two little children come to a gingerbread house in the woods. The lady of the house is a witch, but so are the kids, and one of them is already dead anyway. The real problem is the people looking for them.
Content warnings 3
child-abusechild-deathgore
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.