The Perfect Sail, by I-Hyeong Yun

[Clarkesworld]

★☆☆☆☆

(SF Adventure) A wealthy woman has the multiverse searched for divergent versions of herself who’re near death, offering to add them to her personality, and they always accept. Up until now. (9,308 words; Time: 31m)

National Center for the Preservation of Human Dignity, by Youha Nam

[Clarkesworld]

★★★★☆ Creepy but Logical, and Definitely Memorable

(Dystopia) The narrator is taken away when she can’t pay her “survival tax.” At the Center, she’s got 24 hours to think how to make her end a dignified one. (4,733 words; Time: 15m)

Flowers on My Face, by Geo-Il Bok

[Clarkesworld]

★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention

(Robot SF) On Ganymede, a group of robots working to repair the colony find time to experiment with trying to act like humans (6,759 words; Time: 22m)