Two Spacesuits
ShortStory 4,540 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"A four-hour drive between me and my parents is a distance that works well for everybody. I can come back for a weekend, but they don’t call me back for every little thing. So when Mom did call me at work in the middle of the day and said, “Your father is acting weird,” I feared for the worst."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.