Synthetic Perennial1 by Vivianni Glass (Tor.com, 22nd February 2022) has K’Mori, the narrator, restrained in a hospital after undergoing surgery. We soon learn that:
I am the first person in modern history to have ever been scientifically resurrected. Excuse me: revitalized. “Resurrection” is a religious and political minefield. I don’t understand the specifics of the procedures; I just know that I have four different people’s organs in me, and my new pancreas allows me to proudly say that I am a cyborg.
A kind nurse, Lillian, arrives later and, the next day, she puts K’Mori in a wheelchair and they roam about the hospital. During this excursion Lillian asks K’mori if she is going to reply to a boy who has contacted her; we also get a dribble of backstory. At the end of their walk, they see K’Mori’s “followers” on the streets outside the hospital.
The rest of the story (spoiler) sees K’Mori dream about her cousin Kenny, who brings her something in a box and tells her that they won’t let her go. K’Mori awakes from this to discover (I think) that she is having a medical emergency during an attack on the hospital.
This is a fragmentary piece that is little more than a set-up and climax. There is no real plot, or development or examination of the story’s gimmick.
* (Mediocre). 4,750 words. Story link.
1. This placed third in the “LeVar Burton Reads writing contest, as co-presented by FIYAH Literary Magazine and Tor.com!”