What Gentle Women Dare
ShortStory 6,578 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
As a prostitute in Liverpool in 1763, Lolly has a hard life. She steals from a well-dressed corpse she finds in the river, with unexpected results.
Content warnings 3
child-deathsexual-contentviolence
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