The Empty
ShortStory 5,587 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Sal looked at the motionless red dot on the screen. With two fingers she zoomed in. The dot was on U.S. 50 in Nevada, miles from anything that even had a name. She grabbed the GPS coordinates. The nearest service station was seventy kilometers from there. Sal zoomed back out. Everything else was green."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.