The Aquarium for Lost Souls
Novelette 7,964 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"The aquarium is different every time I die. Exhibits reshuffling like a deck of cards. The blood loss, though, that’s reliable. Death ninety-three was the jellyfish room: all those ghost bodies and moonsilk, limned radiant in the blacklight, jetting about noiselessly amid the hum of the station’s warp core."
Content warnings 2
abuseviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.