Rabbit Test

Samantha Mills Uncanny 49 2022

ShortStory 7,067 words Recommended by 8 award/anthology sources

"It is 2091, and Grace is staring at the rabbit in the corner of her visual overlay. It is an Angora rabbit, fluffy and white, and when Grace picked the icon out, she did not realize how much she would come to dread the sight of it. She moves, and the overlay moves with her. A reminder. A threat."

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Visceral Introspective Political Resistance Defiant Fragmented Bodily Autonomy Speculative Fiction Trauma Lyrical Lyrical Prose Urban Melancholic Survival Near Future Social SF Contemporary Literary SF Close Third Person Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

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abusedeathmental-illnesspregnancy-losssexual-violencesuicide

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