A Series of Steaks
Novelette 7,943 words Recommended by 11 award/anthology sources
A blackmailer forces Helena to make entire fake steaks for him or else he’ll tell the authorities about her business printing fake beef for shady restaurants. She’s never tried to make a whole steak though.
Content warnings 4
abusegoreillness-and-pandemicviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.