Household Blessing vs. Malice

Stories tagged Household Blessing vs. Malice:

• The Horned Women Aug 13, 2025

  

  On a raw night when the wind fussed at the thatch and the fire burned low, a knock came at the door—soft, then not soft. The woman of the house, alone with her sleeping children while her husband drove cattle to fair, set down her spinning and listened.

  “Who’s there?”

  “Friends,” came a voice like wool scraping stone. “Let us in to warm ourselves.”