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"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. A short story classic, later expanded into a novel. The novel isn't bad, but the short has more intensity and impact, IMO.

Or I could send you one of mine.

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Toad Words by T. Kingfisher. Hit all the right buttons for me.
 

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"Calved" by Sam J. Miller in the September Asimov's really got me. Brilliant, but whoa...
 

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The Lake by Ray Bradbury. The hollow emptiness and loss, without spoiling the whole thing, always makes me tear up