Want Itself Is a Treasure in Heaven
ShortStory 5,477 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"and in a strip mall parking lot off a side road in some Baltimore suburb my hand is trembling as I take the last of the voidwater in its little bootleg dropper and I peel my eyelid back and though I am so careful and try so hard a bit of the precious fluid dribbles down my temple cold and slimy..."
Content warnings 3
self-harmsubstance-usesuicide
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.