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Please for the love of god bury that corpse
And great, Sam really is turning out an abuser like their dad, leave the poor horse alone

This is really grim. Was not prepared at all for how dark this would be, especially since the characters are kids .11 and 12. Are they supposed to just live like this?

Of course, perhaps she welcomed her father’s tendency to treat her like a son bcs in her heart she felt she was a boy? So being close with her volatile father was preferable to her mother and sister.
I do feel for her but I also find the way she treats Lucy insufferable

I’m really impressed that the author managed to trick me for this long. I was certain that Sam was a boy. I went back to check and there was never a mention of Sam’s gender, I just assumed. The name and the mannerisms were enough to convince me without any real evidence. This adds a whole new layer to the story. Sam has the weight of her father’s expectations on her to be how he wanted even after he’s dead

Wow that is grim
Its difficult to imagine a time and place that is so uncaring that children are turned away like this. Clearly they don’t expect to recive help with the body of their dead father. Lucy is only trying to take out a loan. I feel for her a lot already, her attempts to stay above water trapped between an abusive father and a little brother who takes more and more after him each day. Sam shot at a man?