The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video
Novelette 8,370 words Recommended by 7 award/anthology sources
"At first I thought something had broken in my book. I didn’t notice until the afternoon light from the windows began to recede. I tried to increase the brightness settings of the page, but no matter how I thumbed the margins, they would not change. For the first time, I looked carefully at the gold printing along its spine. The book was dead."
Content warnings 3
death-of-a-loved-onesubstance-useviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.