The Mournful Cry of Owls by Christopher Golden

In 1970s America, a teenage girl celebrates her birthday, falls in love with a boy, and fights the strange hunger inside her as her mother reveals a dreadful secret. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a set of twelve haunting tales of human longing, magic when least expected, and terrible prices to be paid, willingly or not.

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