Title STET Series --- Author Sarah Gailey Cover Art --- Publisher Fireside Fiction - 2018 First Printing Fireside Fiction - 2018 Category Science Fiction Warnings Death of a child Main Characters Anna, Ursual Main Elements Artificial Intelligence Website firesidefiction.com/stet

A tiny story of sociopathic automotive vehicles.

2019 Hugo award finalist for Best Short Story

"STET is an obelism, used by proofreaders and editors to instruct the typesetter or writer to disregard a change the editor or proofreader had previously marked."

A one paragraph article is being edited, comments appears to either side as one might see in a Word document. The editor is worried that the writer is biased (well who wouldn't in her situation), starting off with him gently suggesting rewriting a line here or there, while the writer responds with escalating frustration and pain till we, the reader, can't help but feel the agony this mother must be feeling at the loss of her child when a car driven by artificial intelligence chose to kill her daughter instead of an endangered woodpecker. This story doesn't try to really get into the ethics of whether a member of a nearly extinct species has more value than one from a very populous one, but is all about the pain of loss and helpless anger. I can see why this was nominated for a Hugo award, I don't think I've ever read anything that really gets to one's core while being so short, and while not even being a story!