The Buried Children

“As Long At The City Stands, We Live” (Episode 1 of Uprising — a six-part serialized fiction story)

In the morning, by order of the Night Queen, they began burying the last of the city’s children. The task had been grim and the soil was hard, and the soldiers dug in silence. Gone the usual banter, the jokes, the boasting. Gone were even the officers — the…