Signs of Life
Novelette 11,996 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"If you were to drive to my sister Violet’s house today, you would find yourself at a very different place from the one I encountered on my first trip. The road up the mountain has been paved, for one thing, to make it more accessible to the tourists who now support it. Back then if you were behind the wheel of anything..."
Content warnings 1
death-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.