The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station
Novella 35,890 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Lottie wanted to break something. Because she hadn’t! She’d shaped the cafeteria tray perfectly, with an ergonomic curve to support her elbow. She hadn’t had access to screws or nails, so she cut tabs into the workbench and slots into the tray, but the creators of workbenches had clearly not thought ahead to the eventual need for a series of slots to be cut, so when she’d inserted the expansion tray—with minimal force!—the entire surface had broken. How was that her fault?"
Content warnings 1
mental-illness
Quasar links out; the story lives on Analog, where the author gets the click.