The Secret Strength of Things
ShortStory 2,380 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The Snow Woman was away, far away. The winds that blew round the frozen world would take “days” to bear her to where Kitsune sheltered, even though both lay beneath the blue light of Ryujin, which the Chinese call Hǎiwángxīng and the white folks call Neptune."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.