Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness
Novelette 7,850 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"From the first time I visited Mariah Lee-Cassidy in prison, she radiated defiance. The poisonous orange of her prison jumpsuit might have been the decision of the state, but everything else about the twenty-nine-year-old, from her aggressively spiked hair to the rakish tilt of her chin, seemed calculated to scorn others."
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Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.