The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls
ShortStory 4,199 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
A group of women have been chemically altered to set cities on fire from a distance. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea—including the women themselves.
Content warnings 4
child-deathdeathillness-and-pandemicviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.