Name: Black Box
Author: Jennifer Egan
Length: 8597 words
Sub-genre: horror, spy/thriller, dystopia, short story
Why it's awesome: Brillian use of second character narration as it's formatted as thought transcription of a lady spy. Dark and thought provoking

Any other important information to know about: involves sexual threat/violence, disassociation

Link to the story at The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box
Link on Wayback Machine (if you have reach free article limit): https://web.archive.org/web/20190828201319/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box-2