The Heart of Owl Abbas
ShortStory 6,943 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
Excelsior lives to write songs, and Nightingale was made to sing them. But the decadent city of Owl Abbas does not deserve either one.
Content warnings 2
body-horrordeath
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.