Read my story in the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies: It takes the better part of a millennium for Tripodea to recover sufficiently from the mage’s cruelty before she can contemplate sending her thoughts to the sea creature’s mind.
I wrote an early version of this story at Cat Rambo’s Wayward Wormhole, a writing workshop that was held at Castel de Llaes, in Spain. Perhaps that’s why there is so much stone in this story. Then again, it all began with a writing exercise led by the remarkable Sarah Pinsker. I could not have done it, however, without two groups of insightful critiquers and astute editor Scott Andrews.