The Light of Setting Suns
ShortStory 6,038 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"It is the shared birthday of the isle of Barradwyth. As a gift, Cyfris has promised his granddaughter Cydovan the one story he has never told her. They are sitting on the balcony of their home on Barradwyth Station, overlooking a street paved with mosaic tile. Cyfris knows that Cydovan has been planning to ask him for his story ever since he refused on her birthday last year."
Content warnings 2
deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.