Reposted by Meredith Bak
“A few ladies wept and threw themselves on the ground as the mother was carried from the house, as though it were a religious event.”
This Molotov Cocktail flash by @meredithbak.bsky.social has such a world and an ending that hits so hard.
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The Molotov Cocktail
The Mother Made of Wax at Dawn by Meredith A. Bak It happened one autumn morning. For the rest of his life, the boy refused to disclose what he had seen in the early gray light during the milking a…