The Game of Smash and Recovery
ShortStory 5,594 words Recommended by 7 award/anthology sources
Anat doesn't remember her parents, but she loves her brother Oscar. They live in a wonderful world full of strange creatures and machines. The more she learns, the stranger things seem.
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.