The Dirty Golden Yellow House
Novelette 10,437 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"On the first floor of a Colonial-style house constructed last century out of planks of old growth cedar, a monster is dragging a woman’s husband from room to room. The specific path this monster takes will be evident the next morning from the gashes in the wood floors and the splattering of the husband’s innards upon the plaster walls."
Content warnings 2
abusesexual-violence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Lightspeed, where the author gets the click.