Discontinuity
ShortStory 4,458 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Stars snap into place outside Lura’s cockpit. A red giant twenty degrees off her ship’s nose has visibly shifted position. The nebula above her has grown more diffuse. She exhales, clicks the button to log another successful breach, and lets herself blink while the flight computer calculates the next FTL jump. She never closes her eyes during the breach."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.