The Giants of the Violet Sea
Novella 26,979 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"I don’t realize how far apart I have grown from my mother until, upon meeting her again, I have to force myself to hug her. When I heard the news, I packed a few things from my personnel apartment at the Omega hospital and booked a ticket on the next train to Tafros. It took two empty days and two sleepless nights by train to cross the vast expanse of rocky plains from Omega..."
Content warnings 2
death-of-a-loved-oneviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.