Or Luca

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/bsfa-short-fiction-5/

Some good things in this novella: impressive depiction of the two major characters’ psychological and personal issues, and they are brought together neatly at the end. But I did wonder if it actually qualifies as science fiction or fantasy? The unreal elements of the story are explicitly the title character’s hallucinations, which didn’t seem to me to have much direct impact on anyone other than her. I also wasn’t hugely convinced show more by the setting, a country in the Middle East which doesn’t feel very Middle Eastern. show less