Giant Fish
ShortStory 2,890 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"K’un died. It breathed for tens of thousands of years and, at long last, life came to an end. Its body was washed ashore. Pale red scales plowed through vegetation as the bulging exoskeleton grazed against dunes. Its enormous carcass formed an imposing mountain range along Pearl Island’s shoreline."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.