The Day When the Last War is Over
ShortStory 3,713 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"It’s the day when the last war is over, and skeletons of swallows are already starting to return. They don’t have beaks, and their white, hard-boiled eyes fly three inches ahead of their semi-transparent faces, or sometimes on their side. Skeletons of babies start whimpering in the cradles, and a small skeleton of a doggy digs itself out of the ashes."
Content warnings 2
deathwar
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.