Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon
Novelette 8,190 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Imagine: purple-haired girl shooting down the moon.” I type the prompt into the black screen as if making a request to God. The blurred shape of a head appears in four variations over a pixelated ocean of gray. The eyes, corrugated whites, slowly take shape. “We’re leaving. Our ride’s here,” Mina says..."
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abusesexual-contentviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.