Blood Moon

Maera Kankan was a pig-farmer. She liked goats and chickens too, but pigs were her favorite. There was something reassuring about the fat, lazy, and pink animals, that comforted her simple mind, especially when she thought of her haughty Ma and her stepbrother and sister. Elgar was nice when he noticed her. Saesha wasnotnice as she noticed her for all the wrong reasons. Her Ma never noticed her at all.

Maera preferred it that way, she was content with her lot. Until one fateful day when something dreadful happened.

Everyone carries their baggage in this life, everyone must face their demons. But Maera’s fate was such that she had to carry someone else’s load.