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Pigman's Fingers by award-winning South African expat playwright Ian Fraser (
Wikipedia), a horror-ish short which he says was published in The Utopian literary magazine.
A young boy struggles to make sense of the nightmarish world he inhabits, alone with his mother in the remains of what was once America.
A post-apocalyptic Gothic tale, in the tradition of classics like 'Riddley Walker' and 'Lord of the Flies.'