On the Sunlit Side of Venus
ShortStory 7,092 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"She laid in bed and stared at the bottom of the bunk above her, riddled as it was with sticker and tape residue, which was stubborn as piss. The human race could contrive to send her to Venus, but it had not been clever enough to figure out how to remove sticker residue."
Content warnings 2
deathsuicide
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.