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Strange Waters

ShortStory 6,183 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources

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Mika is lost at sea, but lost in time, not space, landing at her home port over and over at different times spread across almost two thousand years as she tries to get home to her children.

Speculative FictionMotherhoodElegiac

More tags 11

Secondary WorldLyricalLyrical ProseSacrificeSurvivalLiterary SFClose Third PersonGrief And LossBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

Content warnings 1

death-of-a-loved-one

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