The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power
ShortStory 5,642 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
Whenever the captain dies, the new captain inherits his/her memories back to the start of the mission, but only the good ones; the sin eater gets the bad ones.
Content warnings 3
deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.