The Failing Name
ShortStory 5,200 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The oval fruit, uneven on all sides even when it’s ripe, is not just for eating. Spaces in the dust roads filled with reddish-brown wind are what she sees in her lost childhood. Jolainne wants to tell you, to tell anyone who’ll listen, of hiding in the leaves of a mango tree, witnessing what could have been the onset of an assault."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Fantasy, where the author gets the click.