The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste
ShortStory 2,885 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"On a Thursday night in Harvestmonth, when the moon rises round and bronze as a new betrothal promise watch, is the warlike thrice-veiled Mother of Mákhesthaines, crowned in her black silk mantles embroidered with skulls, permitted across the Holy Square and into the Grand Cathedral of Saint Ignace Battiste."
Content warnings 1
death
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