Speak Easy, Suicide Selkies
Novelette 7,599 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
They say that when women throw themselves into the sea, they turn into seals. Teen-age Louise, dying of tuberculosis, finds a magical seal skin that turns her into a new person. Then the owner shows up.
Content warnings 3
abusesuicideviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.