Day Ten Thousand
ShortStory 6,610 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"A man who will be given a second name in ten thousand years and a man whose name will be forgotten sit in a forest, or perhaps a grassy plain, or perhaps a cold tundra. It is a biome that will not exist in ten thousand years but whose footprint will be pressed into the earth and folded over."
Content warnings 2
mental-illnesssuicide
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.