Three pretty good stories that were published in April 2012

"Mother Ship" by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed) - A short, sharp story that is successful based on a single image: that of a jury-rigged, crippled biological ship that's pregnant with a deformed offspring--a ship that can't quite come to terms with the strange manner in which it came to be and yet is willing to bestow that same confusion onto its chil…