The Historiography of Loss
ShortStory 4,091 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"I didn’t expect the trailer to feel so small and that some of the blood would still be wet. But I must have expected some blood because I cuffed my jeans before going in. And I didn’t expect the cats would have come back—a window was open, its screen clawed loose. I didn’t expect how they pawed through the blood."
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
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