Skin Deep
Novelette 13,473 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
Trina Nelson is a pretty, popular sixteen-year-old high school student whose idyllic life took a turn for the tragic because of the Wild Cards virus. Now, she wants nothing more than to live out her days in the shadowy anonymity of the Jokertown on the Santa Monica Pier. But life, it turns out, has still another wild card to deal Trina…
Content warnings 1
death-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.