And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead
Novelette 11,123 words Recommended by 9 award/anthology sources
Rhye a bitter ex-supersoldier, fights to rescue Rack, her hacker partner in crime, after the criminals they're working for kill Rack's body while his mind is in cyberspace.
Content warnings 4
body-horrordeathgoreviolence
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