Nirvana or Bust
ShortStory 3,192 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"It begins with a half-cyborg girl dangling her legs over the edge of the Grand Canyon at midnight. Below her are hundreds of millions of years of geological history, sliced open by a knife of water. Billions of years of stellar evolution shine down on her from above. Her head is raised, and her eyes are wide."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Analog, where the author gets the click.