The Salt Witch
ShortStory 5,787 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Juana thought this was bullshit. She had found the broken sailboat in the south wind and tried to pilot it to Hispaniola, but it wouldn’t go in the right direction. You’d think flying would be the hard part, but no, it was steering. And you’d think witches would be born knowing how to sail boats on the wind..."
Content warnings 2
child-deathdeath
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.