Embroidery of a Bird's Heart
ShortStory 3,785 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Grandma died last year, yet she comes every Saturday to have lunch with me. When she was still alive, she loved telling everyone that we were roommates. She would say to her embroidery club friends that her roomie had landed a very hip job in the city because she did not want to admit to them that I had moved in to take care of her..."
Content warnings 2
deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.