Woman Like Stone Like Water
Novelette 8,245 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"Good stone, like water, wrought truce by necessity. Here, the river became a waterfall and ate the earth like honeycomb. Here, teardrops of flint washed up at a stone knapper’s feet. Bands of every people in the vastness of the world came for the stone. They went away richer in tools and tricks, and they went away safe."
Content warnings 3
animal-harmgoreviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.