The Future Is Blue
Novelette 8,800 words Recommended by 7 award/anthology sources
Teenage Tetley lives in a human settlement (one of the last) built on a miles-wide floating garbage dump. She explains why everyone hates her now.
Content warnings 4
deathsexual-violencesubstance-useviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Drowned Worlds, where the author gets the click.