The Village's Sacred Rabbit Girls

Summary

In our village, once the girls turn 16, they must begin fasting and take a secret formula to produce bloodstones.

My mother says this is the necessary path for a girl to become a rabbit-woman. It is also the most important thing in her life.

On the day my sister turns 16, a rabbit tail grows from her tailbone. She no longer has to work in the fields. She only needs to lie in her room each day and take the formula.

From that very night on, I see one man after another—sometimes several at once—enter her room. Before long, the sounds of heavy breathing begin to come from inside...