How We Burn
Novelette 10,386 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
Sequoia and her friends hate their overcontrolled world, where four generations have only been allowed a single child, making teens rare and coddled.
Content warnings 3
death-of-a-loved-onesubstance-useviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Lightspeed, where the author gets the click.