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The Price of Survival:
The Pukwudgies
by H.A. Hutson
The Hockomock is not a swamp. It is a memory. And home to the last tribe of an ancient race that predates humans by tens of thousands of years.
The Pukwudgies are the last of their kind. Ancient before the first Viking ships found North American shores. Before the first humans stumbled over the Bering Strait. Guardians of a sacred place.
When the pale ones begin to encroach, attacking the indigenous peoples and destroying their wetland, the Pukwudgies do what they have always done.
They remind the world why this place is feared.
But survival has always come at a price.
The third entry in the Blood and Myth series. Dark fiction rooted in the oldest myths of a land that does not forget.
The land remembers what the maps never knew. Fear is the least of what it keeps.
The Price of Faith:
Blood & Consequence
by H.A. Hutson
In the early colonial period, a band of missionaries makes contact with an Algonquin family in the eastern woodlands. When they find no willing converts, they return with soldiers. What follows is not persuasion but slaughter. The family’s young granddaughter, Katonah, survives only by hiding in a hollow log through the night, keeping her small cousin alive and silent while the darkness outside does its work. She makes it to morning. Barely.
What comes to her in the aftermath is not salvation. It is a bargain, offered by something older than the forest itself — something that recognizes in Katonah’s grief exactly the vessel it has been waiting for. She steps into that bargain with open eyes. She does not step back out.
What the council names Dakaa Ikwe — Frozen Woman — is what remains.
Cold where Katonah was warm. Patient where Katonah was frightened.
Capable of things no living woman should be capable of, in service of a vengeance that the dead cannot carry out for themselves.
The Shaman Midew has been watching from the edges of this story since before it began. He is building something — a resistance drawn not from warriors but from the creatures the land makes of people when people are pushed past what the living can bear. Dakaa Ikwe is his second recruit. She will not be his last.
The Price of Faith: Blood and Consequence is the second novella in the Blood and Myth series by HA Hutson — dark literary fiction rooted in the indigenous mythology of the eastern woodlands and the colonial history that tried to erase it.
The Price of Greed:
Wendigo
by H.A. Hutson
Paris, 1720. Henri Radisson has always wanted more than what was given to him. More than his brother’s share, more than his father’s patience, more than what even a life of privilege offered. When a brawl over a woman lands both brothers squarely in their father’s reckoning, Louis Radisson’s punishment is swift: ship them both into the wilderness of New York Colony to earn their keep among the fur traders.
The land is older than anything they have words for. And the winter that closes around their camp is older still.
When starvation begins to hollow them out, the men discover that the darkness that crawled out of the frozen ground wasn’t looking for just anyone. It was darkness seeking a dark soul.
The first entry in The Price Of… series. Dark fiction rooted in the oldest
Myths of a land that remembers everything.
Some men don’t become monsters. They simply stop pretending they aren’t.
The Hollow’s Own
by Ryven Black
Iris Rose Reed came into the world with a veil over her face and an old woman’s hands, the only ones steady enough to lift it. Granny Ana called it a caul. She called it a claiming. The hollow had chosen its own before the child ever drew breath.
The church on the ridge was already standing by then, raised before her parents ever met, promising salvation to a place that never asked for it. The preacher who leads it wears kindness like a coat. Not everyone in the hollow is fooled, and the darkness that has watched this ground since before the first settler’s axe fell is not fooled at all.
Some sins wear a collar. This hollow has never needed one to know evil when it moves through the trees.
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