SF Read of the Week

He squinted. A stag was bent over the stream, drinking. It lifted its head and watched him for a while. Then it leaped the stream and cantered around the small hill that had once been the factory where Jamie Barton had once earned three-thirty-five an hour, eight hours a day. Fresh-leaved saplings poked from the soil that covered it.

Actually, it might be somewhat difficult to even call this SF. But, no matter, it's an amazingly compelling story. "A Field Guide to Ugly Places" by Patrick Samphire at Strange Horizons.