Pinocchio Photography
ShortStory 6,450 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The cadaver drone makes an incision along the inside of each finger. My stomach curls, waiting for the blood, but of course there’s none left. The body has been dead for days, all the blood drained and replaced with a sweet-smelling formaldehyde formula. The drone slots in the nanomachines along each phalangeal segment..."
Content warnings 2
deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.