Still Water
Novelette 9,090 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"It turns out you’ve missed your favorite season. Your wheelchair rolls along a path strewn with ginkgo leaves, and you catch sight of the SWAILS building complex: fourteen dome-shaped structures surrounding a flat monument of what looks like black marble. You translate your curiosity into a question mark via your eye-tracking device."
Content warnings 2
death-of-a-loved-oneillness-and-pandemic
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.