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shy_magpie) wrote2019-01-31 04:19 am
shy_magpie) wrote2019-01-31 04:19 am
Original Story Rec:
via conuly
Thirty-Three Percent Joe
Written by Suzanne Palmer
Posted on:Clarkes World Magazine
Genre:Sci-fi, Military, Cybernetics, adult children of abusive parents
Length: ~8k words
My Synopsis: A soldier named Joe from the POV of the cybernetic prosthetics that make up 33% of his body and how they try to help him. Funny and heart breaking. More under the cut to avoid spoilers
Tags/Warnings: under the cut
Sex: None,
Violence/Blood & Gore: Several scenes in war zones including a soldier dying to protect another
Drug/Alcohol Use: medical treatments
Consent: his prosthetics conspire to keep him alive even when he actively tries to die in battle including putting him to sleep to keep him from killing himself, locking his leg so he can't rejoin the fight, causing a hallucination
Other: Death wish; his mother emotionally and verbally abuses him and has done so since he was a child; Arguably medical abuse in that the army keeps patching in new parts and barely attempts to look at his mental health.
conulyThirty-Three Percent Joe
Written by Suzanne Palmer
Posted on:Clarkes World Magazine
Genre:Sci-fi, Military, Cybernetics, adult children of abusive parents
Length: ~8k words
My Synopsis: A soldier named Joe from the POV of the cybernetic prosthetics that make up 33% of his body and how they try to help him. Funny and heart breaking. More under the cut to avoid spoilers
Tags/Warnings: under the cut
Sex: None,
Violence/Blood & Gore: Several scenes in war zones including a soldier dying to protect another
Drug/Alcohol Use: medical treatments
Consent: his prosthetics conspire to keep him alive even when he actively tries to die in battle including putting him to sleep to keep him from killing himself, locking his leg so he can't rejoin the fight, causing a hallucination
Other: Death wish; his mother emotionally and verbally abuses him and has done so since he was a child; Arguably medical abuse in that the army keeps patching in new parts and barely attempts to look at his mental health.