Fleeing Oslyge
Novelette 9,216 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
After 700 years of isolation, the colony faces invasion from fellow humans. Fleeing from the destruction of her home town, Senne hooks up with four soldiers trying to find what’s left of their unit.
Content warnings 4
body-horrordeathsexual-violenceviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.