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In a future where water has colonized land, a team of crack scientists race to prevent a catastrophic breach in a major sea wall beyond the B-Harbor of Baltimore—but the effort will come at a cost. Vera rotates her silent-running, fuel-cell powered skiff until she’s facing B-Harbor Sector 1. She comes to a full stop. […]

She was born in the Cave, emerged from the cocoon of shattered stalactites soaked in vestigial groundwater like all daughters before her. Her first name was Kori, her second, Mama, and now finally everyone calls her Yaya, the eldest. Even after so long, a sinful child whose hunger for adventure once lured her old family […]

Ava is born at 12:00 a.m. sharp on the first day of spring, with purple crocus buds pushing through the patchy snow outside. It is a home birth, and she spends her first day on earth squalling and sleeping, nursing and acclimating to her new existence. She has a mother and a father who gaze […]

*** Two months ago *** Her daughter’s eyes searing into her own. This moment is always present for Crass. “How could you?” Take away the fine wrinkles of middle age, and Sera’s still the little girl. Crass has always wondered when she’d cross this line. No trust left in those eyes. So this is what […]

Muna is getting worse. Scales form around his scars, creep up his veins and cluster under his elbows. He won’t be able to stay on the shore with us much longer. In a matter of days, he’ll seek the sea. “Let me go.” He gasps his words, his voice rough and unfamiliar. Not the voice […]

Ten thousand years later, the gods return to their bodies. I am one of them. My consciousness encompasses a solar system. I have sensors scattered over twelve planets and hundreds of moons and moonlets. I have probes sipping at the wind of the sun’s upper atmosphere and probes at the edge of interstellar space, circling […]