I read Stories: What Remains To Wake by Jordan Taylor

What Remains To Wake by Jordan Taylor in The Deadlands

A child is born to royalty and is doomed to be killed by her mother-in-law. But the wise woman is able to divert this prophecy, she will not truly die but will return when someone steals her heart.

Someone lies in the forest as though they are dead and the birds eat the berries that grow on her and the deer eat the leaves. They are her children.

Her mother-in-law feeds her a feast and it is terrible beyond belief, beyond even the doom that has been laid on her. Is it better that she die than endure this?

Read This: For a dark tale of eating and fate and the woods
Don’t Read This: If a transformation into a living death as the most merciful event seems too dark