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#PC895: The Day of the Sea by Jennifer Hudak. Read by Pippa Alice Stephens. Previously published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Rated PG-13.

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#PC895: The Day of the Sea by Jennifer Hudak. Read by Pippa Alice Stephens. Previously published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Rated PG-13. When the Sea came to our village, she was an old woman. She arrived when the water crested and draped over the earth, its salty fingers pushing out offerings of sea glass and bladder wrack. Her dress trailed behind her, hair tangled with kelp and tentacles. No one doubted that she was the Sea. Everyone was disappointed. We’d all heard tales about the power of the rising ocean, how it leveled towers and returned rock to sand. How it would destroy everything in its path in order to make its way home, to our village. In those tales, the Sea was a warrior, beautiful and terrible, slashing her way across the continent, swallowing everything in her path. Even when gossips at the market began to whisper about nearby towns swallowed by salt water, about boats crushed like kindling and bones strewn across the ocean floor, even as the smell of salt wafted on the breeze, we did not seek her out.
June 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM