This is an excellent, powerful story... but I'm not sure I'd call it science-fiction. (It's a Nebula Nominee and appears in Strahan's Best SF of the Year anthology...)

Yes, there's a bizarre element, and a 'scientific' framework - but both feel largely symbolic.
The story is dedicated to the victims of a terrorist attack in Pakistan, and effectively discusses terrorism and the hopeless circle of hate and revenge that leads to such violence. ( )

A Pakistani woman loses her family in a number of violent incidents. Using a metaphor of physical states of to represent levels of pain, fantasy elements help bring some element of closure. ( )

沒有看太懂, 但是感覺很厲害的樣子. 所以這一家子是外星生物麼? ( )