The Needleworkers

Winner of The Audacious Book Club Short Story contest

In July 2024, our book club read Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Cuckoo. One of my favorite things about the novel was the way she wrote a horror story that felt utterly original and reminded us that the ways our society treats people on the margins is far greater a horror than any dark imagining of the monsters beneath our beds. We were so inspired by the nov…