Then we swim out to where the swell is clear

I am not in the table of contents of Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction for a Time of Pandemic (2020) edited by Iona Datt Sharma, but since such authors as Marissa Lingen, Aliette de Bodard, Rebecca Fraimow, Jeannelle M. Ferreira, Stephanie Burgis, and Datt Sharma themselves are, you want a copy. You get historical selkies and alternate climate change and Greek myth college AU and fairy flatmates and pirate radio in space and elder care on Mars and more. All proceeds go to the University College London Hospitals Charity for COVID-19. And none of it is dystopian, because we have enough of that already outside of pages these days.