Author

Claire Bartlett

Claire Bartlett lives in her enchanted forest cottage in Denmark, where she lives an innocent, hex-free life with too few cats. She has been previously published with Daily Science Fiction and her debut novel, Our Realm is the Night, is coming from Little Brown on April 2nd, 2019.

We Do Not Know What Happened to the Children

The rats, we know. We drowned them in nets in the river, and now our town is paved with bones. Thighbones, rib bones, vertebrae, fibulas. Even finger bones. Rat fingers look remarkably like human ones when stripped down past the skin. We ate them, then we used them to decorate…