Skeleton Song - BOOKS.HCCP.ORG

English language

Published Dec. 16, 2022 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:: 9781250875136

(1 review)

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting, but they’re not always happy. From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story of love, of devotion, of bones wrapped in flesh.

Published on Tor's Site- www.tor.com/2022/10/26/skeleton-song-seanan-mcguire/

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting, but they’re not always happy. From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story of love, of devotion, of bones wrapped in flesh.

Published on Tor's Site- www.tor.com/2022/10/26/skeleton-song-seanan-mcguire/

1 edition

Soh Kam Yung reviewed Skeleton Song by Seanan McGuire

A story of a boy made out of flesh living in a world where living people are made out of bones

3 stars

Part of the author's Wayward Children series, this short story tells the story of a boy who stumbles into a world where skeletons come to life at night due to singing of songs. The boy had a terminal illness that was cured by the Princess of the land, and he decides to stay there, the only person with living flesh in a world of living bones. When he confesses his love for the Princess, and she brings him to see her parents, they learn the secret of turning flesh to bone while still retaining the memories of a life in flesh. Now all they have to do is to execute the secret.