There are six of them. No, seven. They cycle out of the tower and into the night, following their headmistress. Their headmistress wears a habit. The girls wear cloaks, cloaks to hide their hunger. I cannot tell you...
To The Tower
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Skyler Melnick
Skyler Melnick is an MFA candidate for fiction at Columbia University. She writes about sisters playing catch with their grandfather's skull, headless towns, and mildewing mothers. Her work has appeared in Vestal Review, Moon City Review, and Corvid Queen, forthcoming in Pinch, Terrain, and Scoundrel Time.