A Japanese fishing float carries my soul out to the whales

[sovay]

This evening's mail delivered my contributor's copy of Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, edited by Lynne Jamneck. It's a beautiful trade paperback with full-page illustrations and it includes my novelette "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts."

I've written a little about this story before: my fish people will be intersectional or they will be bullshit. I put a lot of my sea-longing into it. A lot of my sea-bitterness, too: I jumped into the winter sea when I was fourteen or fifteen months old, but I didn't change then or any time after. I suppose I keep hoping. Some of the characters feel the same way.

I haven't yet been to the sea this summer. Thank you for the reminder, universe.

Comments

[yhlee]

Yay story!

[sovay]

Yay story!

Thank you!

[davidgillon]

Must have been away when that previous post went through. The rosewood line is glorious.

[sovay]

Must have been away when that previous post went through. The rosewood line is glorious.

Thank you! It's the only review so far the story's received, but I am very happy with it.

[phi]

Hooray!

[sovay]

Hooray!

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

Yay intersectional fish people!

[sovay]

Yay intersectional fish people!

Thank you!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's one of my favourite tales by you. Fabulous cover too. I hope you got an illustration.

[sovay]

Congratulations! That's one of my favourite tales by you.

Thank you! I'm very glad. It is my first direct engagement with Lovecraft outside of poetry and I am still, actually, really happy with it.

Fabulous cover too. I hope you got an illustration.

I did! Look to your e-mail.