Apartment Wars
Novella 20,111 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Poland, 1979 Warm sun filtered through the leaves and dappled the sidewalk as Helena walked back from the farmers’ market. In May, the linden trees bloomed all over the city, the same cheerful green fringed with white as the year before, as if nothing had changed. Helena tried not to dwell on the dissonance."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Analog, where the author gets the click.