I Read Stories: The Glow-In-The-Dark-Girls by Senaa Ahmad

 

The Glow-In-The-Dark Girls by Senaa Ahmad in Strange Horizons

Moscow burns and the girls look back on what happened. How they were volunteers and experimented on. How they were sent out to destroy. How the media loved them, until they didn’t. How Nabeela, the most beautiful, was the one interviewed, and how those at the interview have died. How Nabeela isn’t beautiful any more.

Dark magical girl superhero human experiment story, looking into the cost, the country that would produce such terrible weapons and the people who are part of it. And what’s left when it’s over.

Read This: Dark reminiscence of what is left when the horror is over
Don’t Read This: Just a lot of radiation poisoning and well-rehearsed comments on media