Status Updates From Fast Ships, Black Sails

A dark and disturbing tale with a living puppet that could be Pinocchio's evil twin and a cruel woman captain who has been a slave at least twice, in a world full of cannibal tribes.

This one's looking more and more like sf. Are the whales biomechancial? References to blow hatches make them sound like machines, yet they have throats and nostrils and other structures that sound biological. Some kind of designed organism that includes features that are usually mechanical?

This one's present-day or near-future, and has a feel of somewhere in Latin America, with all the Spanish names. It looks to be about illegal whaling, with maybe a little drug running in there as well.

A story that puts me in mind of _The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle_ -- except in an alternate world where it appears Christianity never arose. The culture feels more Persian, with multiple wives and eunuch guardians, but we have recognizable English names. It may work as a short story, but probably a novel set in that world would run into trouble with fridge logic.

An anthropomorphic animal story in the tradition of Beatrix Potter, of a ship of rat pirates taking on the hamsters, and the pretty kitty bride.

Good riddance to the story of the dysfunctional ship. The next is the second sf story so far, of a Company Planet, organized crime as enforcers, and the people who are pushing back by extralegal methods. Now a historical of Drake's privateers in the Arctic.