Spinning Shadow
ShortStory 4,949 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Tarma had only just begun the Widow Fenton’s flax when the Shadow Undying rose once more. At first she thought that the shutter on the upper window must have come unwedged, since the light shouldn’t have failed so early in the day. But the unholy chanting in a voice like the bottom of a well ruled out it being any of the shutters."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.