Everything the Sea Takes, It Returns
ShortStory 2,704 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Everything the sea takes, it gives back in its own way and its own time. That was what Jess’s grandmother believed, what she’d told Jess as they stood in the shadow of the giant red cedar that had washed ashore, its severed roots thicker than Jess’s body. ... So, when the virus takes Jess’s grandmother, Jess steers her little solar-powered boat out past the Channel Islands and gives the body to the sea."
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deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
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