To Sail the Black
Novelette 8,116 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"The ghost ship Xanthic Promise sails the black, powered by the slumbering heart of a dying star. And its captain, Antimony Jones, stalks its decks in a swirl of crimson coat and fox fire lighting, dogged by voices. The recent dead, the long dead, and the dead-to-be, all murmuring..."
Content warnings 3
body-horrordeathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.