daily-ish short fiction recs! Clarkesworld December-September

(You haven't missed anything, I'm just going backwards in time on this one instead of forward.)

Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart, Samantha Murray. Mother of a soldier.

Western Heaven, Chen Hongyu, trans. Andy Dudak. I don't even have the right cultural references for this and I still enjoyed the heck out of it. *NOVELETTE

Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home, Genevieve Valentine. I wasn't sure about this one for awhile but I think I like where it ended up. *NOVELETTE

Rusties, Nnedi Okorafor and Wanuri Kahiu. Interesting stuff here about how violence starts.

The Despoilers, Jack Skillingstead. Compelling premise but ends in a weird place?

The Green Man Cometh, Rich Larson. Fast-moving action-adventure of the "citizen drawn into police/spy events, uses their own special talents to get through" sort, with neat special talents.*NOVELETTE