The Perfect Sail
Novelette 9,308 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
A wealthy woman has the multiverse searched for divergent versions of herself who’re near death, offering to add them to her personality, and they always accept. Up until now.
Content warnings 2
deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.