The Sin of America
ShortStory 5,587 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
"There’s a woman outside of a town called Sheridan, where the sky comes so near to earth it has to use the crosswalk just like everybody else. … There’s a woman outside of Sheridan and she is eating the sin of America."
Content warnings 3
child-deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.