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The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon

ShortStory 5,875 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

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Meant to clear plastic from the sea, the artificial “squids” have put the oceans off-limits to humanity. Not everyone takes that lying down.

BiopunkColonialismHistorical Europe

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Ambiguous EndingPolitical ResistanceFragmentedElegiacLyricalMelancholicSurvivalNear FutureSocial SFLiterary SFContemplativeBelongingFirst PersonGrief And LossVoice DrivenBittersweetScience Fiction

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death

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