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 Queer Identity Post Apocalyptic

More tags 15

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

Content warnings 4

animal-harmdeathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence

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