De MotherJumpers
Novelette 9,146 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
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.
Content warnings 3
goresexual-violenceviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Strange Horizons, where the author gets the click.