Mirror Stages
ShortStory 5,240 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The man in the navy Cosmo Corp suit calls it Self-Reconciliation Therapy, this place they’ve dumped you, where the walls are made of mirrors. But they aren’t mirrors, are they? Sure, you raise a hand, and the woman in the not-mirror waves. God, her lustrous hair. Thick lashes fanning over doe eyes."
Content warnings 3
child-abuseself-harmsexual-content
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.