When He Calls Your Name
Novelette 10,619 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my bell and found me perfectly awake, swinging back and forth on a hanging sweetheart bench with a faded pink and yellow tulip pattern on the cushion."
Content warnings 3
abusebody-horrorviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.