The River Judge
Novelette 10,936 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimed The Water Outlaws, nine-year-old Li Li is introduced to a web of community secrets and family intrigue when she helps her mother bury the corpse of a man that has somehow wound up in the storeroom of her family’s inn…
Content warnings 4
cannibalismdeathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Reactor, where the author gets the click.