The Twenty-One Second God
Novelette 7,870 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"We lost so many souls today. Reports stream in across five continents; icons bloom on the map like blood spatters. Broken filters, zero latency, bandwidth that somehow blew through the roof when no one was looking. The hardware plays catch-up as best it can: this number of petaflops..."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Lightspeed, where the author gets the click.