I Read Stories: What Are We Going To Do About Helen Couch by Hammond Diehl

 

What Are We Going To Do About Helen Couch? by Hammond Diehl in Kaleidotrope

In Cornwall the fae plan to take control for their queen. Ahead of this, fair folk have come, to take what is theirs.

Helen Couch is one of those who has not fled from them. She finds her dog has been killed, thirteen redcaps have come. An ancestor of hers made a deal and they want repaying. In blood. Her father killed himself rather than pay the price. Helen Couch must find a solution, either on the remaining human side, or perhaps in an older power.

One of two redcap stories in the summer Kaleidotrope, the other being by, um, me.

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