Twice-Marked, Wild Against City
Novelette 11,084 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"When Ariana sent word to her birth mother, Scarlett, that they needed to speak, she didn’t really expect a response. Scarlett had abandoned her with her father as a barely weaned infant and only returned when Ariana was twenty. In the few years since, Scarlett had visited a handful of times, but always in the manner of some bit of storm-blown debris..."
Content warnings 1
violence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.