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De MotherJumpers

Novelette 9,146 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source

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Long ago, some people leapt from a slave ship, and something transformed their bodies so she they could breathe water. Today, her descendants try to cope with a changing ocean.

DystopiaColonialismCaribbean

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BleakDreadVisceralMagical RealismDark FantasyMotherhoodDefiantFast PacedFreedomSpeculative FictionTraumaLyrical ProseSurvivalContemporaryFantasyFirst PersonVoice Driven

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goresexual-violenceviolence

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