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Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You

Claire Jia-Wen Clarkesworld 2025 ShortStory Science Fiction 5,830 words

"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

If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow

Claire Jia-Wen Clarkesworld 2025 ShortStory Science Fiction 5,040 words

"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

Mirror Stages

Claire Jia-Wen Clarkesworld 2024 ShortStory Science Fiction 5,240 words

"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

The Plague Comes from Chinatown

Claire Jia-Wen Nightmare 2026

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...

The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy by Claire Jia-Wen

Claire Jia-Wen Clarkesworld 2026

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