Huginn and Muninn—and What Came After
ShortStory 5,848 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Her name was Alyssa, and nobody knew who she was. When she was a child, perhaps, her mother had known. But that was long ago, when she was somebody else. As a young woman she had sometimes dropped clues leading like a trail of breadcrumbs into the dark forest of her being. But nobody had ever followed them all the way in."
Content warnings 2
deathsuicide
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.