Guillotine
Max Franciscovich
Strange Horizons
2026
Novelette
8,164 words
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The guillotine was conceived as swifter, painless, more humane. You touch your throat. You wonder.
Time TravelTrans IdentityHistorical Europe
More tags 18
MortalityMetafictionalSlipstreamSecond PersonQueer IdentityVisceralFragmentedFreedomSpeculative FictionUnsettlingNear FutureMelancholicDarkContemporaryLiteraryFantasyVoice DrivenIdentity
Content warnings 3
self-harmsexual-contentsuicide
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