Stitched to Skin like Family Is
ShortStory 4,517 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"My stitches laddered their way up the split seam, in and out one side, across, and then in and out the other. When you pulled the thread through, if you had done the job right, it closed the seam like it had never been torn at all. The salesman kept glancing from me to the road and back again while I worked."
Content warnings 3
death-of-a-loved-oneracismviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.