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Authors: Terese Svoboda
Tags: #Fiction, #Literary, #Mermaids, #pirates, #Sea Stories, #Arctic regions, #Brothers
The sea, I saw the sea. And—
And?
You, a she, the sea—
Did you see her?
I saw—sister—I saw—
I will mark the spot, I will. What did you see?
Aye, the sea.
Just one more breath! Oh, brother!
Ma!
Here be his X, one false leg, one true, spread. But where be my sister? My true sister.
Acknowledgements
Thanks very much to Professor Kris Lane, Sondra Olsen, Gay Walley, and Steve Bull who is the best pirate of all.
All rights reserved, except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Dzanc Books - 1334 Woodbourne Street, Westland, MI 48186
Chapter 1 published at HTML Giant
Chapter 2 published in
Web Conjunctions
Chapter 4 published in
Fairytale Review
Chapter 2 published in
Web Conjunctions
Chapter 4 published in
Fairytale Review
eISBN : 978-0-982-79757-0
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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