"The Martyr's Gem," by csecooney

csecooney 's story "The Martyr's Gem" is the May story at GigaNotoSaurus. What a story. It is dark, and harsh, and filled with terrible grief, but also full of love--sibling love, mainly, and also loyalty, and also dreams--and also humor: "My eyebrows went past my hairline. I have not located them since," the protagonist says at one point.

And worldbuilding--wonderful, complicated, yet comprehensible worldbuilding. And storytelling: there's a story within a story "The Martyr's Gem," the story o...