Dreamports
Novelette 7,673 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"My spirit aches. Reality is severed. I’m trapped in a glass room. Time is water, streaming by. I’m underwater in the current of time, watching time float by. My hand on the room’s thick glass, unable to shatter it, unable to get out. Even if I escape, time will drown me. Time. Will. Drown. Me. So I slump back. Remain trapped."
Content warnings 3
body-horrorracismsexual-content
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.