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.
SlipstreamQueer IdentityAmbiguous Ending
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IntrospectiveConsciousnessLyricalIntimateSpeculative FictionNear FutureSocial SFLiterary SFLyrical ProseMelancholicContemplativeBelongingContemporaryGrief And LossClose Third PersonBittersweetScience FictionIdentityCharacter Driven
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.
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