Bathymetry
ShortStory 3,223 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
Fear was already on the street waiting for her. Tulaya had seen this purge-and-nightmare Manifest before in Fatih, tagging the footsteps of an old man in the spice market with its shadow like claws.
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.