Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You
ShortStory 5,830 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"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 navigate a maze of sterile white walls..."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.