Matthew Caxton. Patience Lake. (Asimovs August 2017)
A story that grabs you straight away, and keeps you (or at least it did me) reading to the end.
R.R. Merliss. The Stutterer. (The Years Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1956)
A neat complement, 60 years in the past, to Karin Lowachee’s ‘A Good Home’.