Last Train from Deadwall
Novelette 9,700 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The first time Knucklebone tried to kill himself, he’d already been dead for one hundred and thirteen years. He’d died in a workplace accident, which meant it was within their legal rights for the Cogsmith Railroad Company to bind his soul to his reanimated skeleton and hand him the invoice."
Content warnings 3
suicideviolencewar
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.