Real Animals

Em North Lightspeed 121 2020

Novelette 7,768 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources

The aliens occupied and controlled the bodies of animals, destroying most of humanity. A few survivors in a ski resort pass the time preserving the bodies of friends who didn’t make it.

Slipstream Friendship Post Apocalyptic

More tags 15

Queer Identity Lyrical Intimate Literary SF Lyrical Prose Contemplative Survival Belonging Contemporary Grief And Loss Close Third Person Literary Bittersweet Science Fiction Character Driven

Content warnings 4

animal-harmdeathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence

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