Seonag and the Seawolves: A Tor.com Original by M. Evan MacGriogair
My rating: 4/5 cats
WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!
this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll down to get to the story-review.
this is the FOURTH year of me doing a short story advent calendar as my december project. for those of you new to me or this endeavor, here’s the skinny: every day in december, i will be reading a short story that is 1) available free somewhere on internet, and 2) listed on goodreads as its own discrete entity. there will be links provided for those of you who like to read (or listen to) short stories for free, and also for those of you who have wildly overestimated how many books you can read in a year and are freaking out about not meeting your 2019 reading-challenge goals. i have been gathering links all year when tasty little tales have popped into my feed, but i will also accept additional suggestions, as long as they meet my aforementioned 1), 2) standards.
if you scroll to the end of the reviews linked here, you will find links to all the previous years’ stories, which means NINETY-THREE FREEBIES FOR YOU!
2016: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show…
2017: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show…
2018: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show…
reviews of these will vary in length/quality depending on my available time/brain power.
so, let’s begin
DECEMBER 5
We are aware of the worlds beyond our own. We know there are times when you can touch them, at twilight and dusk, at the shores and on days that mark the turning of the year. But it is impossible to know when we have gone from touching those worlds to finding ourselves in one.
Seonag certainly never thought she would swim herself over a blurred boundary, into something deep and cold and dark but full of life and salt and energy nonetheless.
this is a lush, dreamy story that maybe i don’t understand all the way through, but that didn’t stop me from getting caught up in the storytelling flow of it and appreciating the ambiguity rather than being frustrated by it. thumbs-up for wolves, thumbs-down for dolphins, and the rest you’ll need to figure out for yourselves—this is one of the days i warned y’all about, where i don’t have the mental acuity or free time to devote to short story parsing. but read it! it has pretty words and is moody as hell, and i liked it very much. but now, the grind beckons…
read it for yourself here:
https://www.tor.com/2019/08/21/seonag…
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