Yarns
Novelette 8,905 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Inevitably, they found her. She came back to her tiny apartment and clicked on the light to find a massive young man, wearing the signature black jeans and sweatshirt of Combine, standing in her living room. The dim light glinted off his earpiece, the netchips embedded in his cheek, the barrel of his gun."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Asimov's, where the author gets the click.