Claire Jia-Wen
Clarkesworld
2025
ShortStory
Science Fiction
5,830 words
details
"When I was little, I drew dragons and leviathans in my room, stomach down on my bed or tipping my chair back and staring at the ceiling like the lines would rearrange into inspiration. Now I swipe my fingerprint through three levels of security and...
DystopiaArt And CreationSardonic
Content warnings 1
death
Claire Jia-Wen
Clarkesworld
2025
ShortStory
Science Fiction
5,040 words
details
"Oscar’s Digital Double comes two hours, thirty-eight minutes, and eleven seconds late. Maxine snatches the package from the delivery drone and doesn’t tip. She rearranged her day—went to HMart right when it opened, skipped the gym, cooked Grandma a quick...
AI FictionMotherhoodBleak
Content warnings 3
child-deathdeathsuicide
Claire Jia-Wen
Clarkesworld
2024
ShortStory
Science Fiction
5,240 words
details
"The man in the navy Cosmo Corp suit calls it Self-Reconciliation Therapy, this place they’ve dumped you, where the walls are made of mirrors. But they aren’t mirrors, are they? Sure, you raise a hand, and the woman in the not-mirror waves. God, her...
CyberpunkCorporate PowerBleak
Content warnings 3
child-abuseself-harmsexual-content
Claire Jia-Wen
Nightmare
2026
details
Your companions drag the coolie girl to her feet. Some two-cent girl with rags for clothes and hair hanging across her face in tangled strings. Her eyelids flutter but do not open, revealing only the white crescents of her sclera. Blood trickles from a...
Claire Jia-Wen
Clarkesworld
2026
details
Open your eyes. Look down at your hands. What do you see? Your life is never the same after you get into the car with that bitch Sophia, who was […]
Near FutureFriendshipRestrained
Content warnings 3
abuseself-harmsubstance-use