Never Eaten Vegetables
Novelette 15,170 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources
"A ship glides through the night, behemoth mother, swollen with ten thousand human lives. Her path is a single shining vector. There has been no stopping, no rest for the decades she has traveled, and there will be nothing but void for the two years to come. She cannot envision an end to her journey..."
Content warnings 3
child-deathpregnancy-lossviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.