Day Seventeen, Second Moon, Hunting Year Five Hundred and Four
I can only hold the pen with my fist now, so I have to keep this short.
I'm getting worse, but at least Michael keeps getting better. He went to school today. Grandpa took him in the dog cart in the morning and picked him up again in the afternoon so he wouldn't have to walk far, but he is finally well enough to go to class again. Just in time, because now he has to bring my assignments home for me.
I'm afraid to put this down on paper in case someone reads it, but I have to get it out of my head.
Kyla's mother taught her to ward off curses with the right combination of herbs, but the newest plague to befall her village is resistant to all the knowledge her people hold. A witch-hunt begins - One that Kyla finds herself at the center of. All because she stepped into a beehive.
This is a coming-of-age story that centers disability and welcomes queerness. It's not spicy, but it is earnest.
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