Tag: spring

Don’t fear the winter, little one, her mother whispers, because spring will come back to us one day.

But the girl’s eyes are wide and black as the night above, and her muscles thrum with heat under the fingers that push open the door.

I’m not afraid, she tells her mother, teeth white and tongue wet with crimson hunger. There is no season, she speaks against the howling wind, without something to hunt for.