"Spar" is a science fiction short story by American writer Kij Johnson, first published in Clarkesworld Magazine.
[2] A survivor of a space shipwreck is trapped in a raft with an alien, and is pitted against it in a sexual competition for survival and dominance.
The story is written in a third-person perspective with a nameless female survivor of a spaceship wreck.
Johnson contributed an alternate version to Baconthology edited by John J. Ordover featuring "baconized" stories for Bacon-Palooza II,[3] a 2013 charity event benefiting autistic children.
[4] Clarkesworld Magazine published "Spar (The Bacon Remix)" as text and audio in Issue 79, April 2013.