Drawing Blood — Jessi Hammond

Cara lives in a home where her mother's alcohol-fuelled violence is a daily reality.
One day, after a beating, she discovers that her drawing of three lorikeets is now a drawing of two. Where the third lorikeet had been is a spatter of blood, and there's a live lorikeet loose in her room. Does she dare use her newfound talent to help herself or will she make things worse…?