The Lighthouse Girl

Bao Shu Clarkesworld 136 2018

Novelette 8,166 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

Rourou is a Chinese little girl who loves her papa but wonders what happened to her momma. And why she can’t remember anything before age 5. And why she speaks fluent English.

Biopunk Consciousness Ambiguous Ending

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Epistolary Adjacent Unsettling Trauma Literary SF Melancholic Contemplative Memory Contemporary Grief And Loss Literary First Person Bittersweet Science Fiction Identity

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deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence

Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.

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