Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

by GennaRose Nethercott

War cannot be imagined, for those who have not witnessed it cannot truly fathom it, and for those who have borne witness—it is no longer an imagining. It is a boot print permanently crushed into the heart.

We all feel beholden to those we love, even when they can give us nothing in return.

“What is a monster but someone who can see this world from both sides? Even you must know that. You, who live half in life, half in death. What is a monster if not someone, some thing, caught between?”