num_pages: 28
description: What do children know that adults cant begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in this haunting short story by the bestselling author of Her Body and Other Parties . Tiger tiger burning bright in the forests of the night. In the town of Never-Again Pennsylvania this hand-game song contains a historycenturies of inexplicable tiger sightings. A researcher arrives to write yet another academic paper about the well-studied town called Big Cats in the Childrens Hand-Games of Never-Again Pennsylvania. Nobody expects to find new cluesbut years after a scene of unimaginable violence the truth about this childish chant is about to come out. Carmen Maria Machados Bloody Summer is part of Trespass  a collection of wild stories about animal instincts human folly and survival from award-winning bestselling authors. Read or listen to each in a single sitting.
language: English
title: Bloody Summer
publisher: Amazon Original Stories