Schlafstunde
ShortStory 6,294 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"There was a shop in old Haifa that specialised in Treif artefacts, so that was where Mili went first. Haifa sprawled along the side of Mount Carmel. Successive waves of regeneration didn’t do much to change it. Now adaptoplant buildings sprouted like weeds between the cracks, and down in the harbour Drift ships waited, gleaming in the sun."
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.