The novella Fledging by Rose Diell, out next week from Renard Press, opens with Lia suffering severe abdominal cramps. And then she births(?) an egg. She is disgusted and fascinated by it, but does the only humane thing one can do: she builds it a warm nest.
Apart from the egg-laying, the story is familiar. Lia is an ordinary woman in her thirties. She…
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