The Faerie Tree
ShortStory 6,286 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
Only Marianne can see that her new brother-in-law is a horror, and although she knows she can summon the faeries to get rid of him, she also knows the price will be very high.
Content warnings 4
child-deathdeath-of-a-loved-onepregnancy-lossviolence
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