When she told them, I would settle in, safe in my bed, and at the same time, carried away on the tide of her words.Mara’s reminiscing about her past life with her mother alternates with scenes from the present, where the ocean seems to be creeping into her life and becoming a part of her. They were my favorite stories, these tales of the ocean that was both the same as the one outside and yet also full of wonders, just beneath the surface. She would tell me stories of impossible things, of seal-skins slid on and off as if it were nothing, of ways people remade themselves and plunged into those salt waters as if they belonged there. But Mara loves her mother, who tells her wondrous tales of the ocean and the creatures that live in it. She never knew her father (“He was a tide that went only in one direction, and that was away from us”) and she and her mother seem to live oddly isolated lives. In this brief mermaid and selkie legend-inspired story, Mara tells of growing up with her mysterious mother. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature: For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive reprint of the novella "Awakening," by Judith Berman, and an excerpt from Sean O'Brien's new novel, Beltrunner.Ĭurrently this review is just for the fantasy short story "Seven Salt Tears" by Kat Howard, part of this online magazine issue. All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. Plus, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard ("Seven Salt Tears") and Jeremiah Tolbert ("The West Topeka Triangle"), and fantasy reprints by Jeffrey Ford ("Daddy Longlegs of the Evening") and Kima Jones ("Nine"). Corey ("Rates of Change") and Mary Rosenblum ("Tracker"). We have original science fiction by Adam-Troy Castro ("The Whole Crew Hates Me") and Molly Tanzer ("Nine Tenths of the Law"), along with SF reprints by James S.A. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine.
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