This Stitch, This Time
ShortStory 2,480 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"What do you mean, Why didn’t I warn them before? Are you serious? I did! Answer me this if you are so smart. If you had seen it, what would you have done? It all began with a scrap of fabric I used to test the machine’s tension. Over and over and over, white cotton thread over navy blue twill, the same line of bumps and stitches."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.