Nine Births on the Wheel
ShortStory 5,128 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"The first time through this cycle, Devaki does not believe he will go through with it. Kasma is her brother, after all, and for all his fears, he didn’t kill her when he had the chance. So as her baby grows inside her, the first fruit of her marriage to Vasudeva, she is nervous and protective, but she does not feel doom..."
Content warnings 3
child-deathpregnancy-losssuicide
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.