Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias
ShortStory 4,352 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Ursa Major got right the fuck out of our universe on the very afternoon she learned there were other options. It was the lucky break of her life that she just happened to be there, a short sprint from one of those points where the alien aethertrain briefly punched through into our world: a multidimensional mechanical worm intersecting our reality as a rush of vaguely boxcar-like shapes."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Lightspeed, where the author gets the click.