No Placeholder for You, My Love

Nick Wolven Asimov's 08|15 2015

Novelette 9,000 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources

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Claire meets a handsome older man at a dinner party held in a virtual reality where something has gone subtly wrong.

Slipstream Queer Identity Ambiguous Ending

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Introspective Consciousness Speculative Fiction Lyrical Lyrical Prose Intimate Melancholic Near Future Social SF Contemporary Literary SF Contemplative Belonging Close Third Person Grief And Loss Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

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