The Sweetness of Honey and Rot
Novelette 8,915 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
The Life Tree protects the villagers, at the price of human sacrifices. When it takes Jiteh’s brother, she starts looking for ways to escape.
Content warnings 3
body-horrorchild-deathdeath
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.