The Weight of Your Own Ashes
ShortStory 5,700 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"Alice wants to hold a funeral for me, which is disconcerting because I’m not dead. But humans, like all aliens—and certainly all single-forms—have their own idiosyncrasies. I’m used to the idiosyncrasies, of course: I’ve lived on Earth—in my tertiary body, at least—since my hatching in San Francisco..."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.