Flicker by Charlotte Platt

Sometimes an ending comes along that you should have seen coming much sooner. This piece definately delivers there.

Set in some cyberpunk slums, all the trappings of the genre are present. Implants and neon shine through a very human story of love and poverty.

What gets me about this one is that even though it is published in a magazine out of Europe it feels like it must have taken place in the United States, just because of the inequality of health care. Life saving care being prohibitivly expensive is one of the driving dynamics between several of the conversations between characters, which feels intimately American. 

This piece can be found in Write Ahead the Future Looms volume 14. I read it in the sample that was advertised on twitter.