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Flowers for the Sea
Written by Zin E. Rocklyn
Narrated by Amina Koroma
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This dark, dazzling debut novella is a lush, gothic fantasy about the price of vengeance that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia Butler.
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Zin E. Rocklyn
Zin E. Rocklyn is a contributor to Bram Stoker-nominated and This is Horror Award-winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, and Forever Vacancy anthologies and Weird Luck Tales No. 7 zine. Their story "Summer Skin" in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology Sycorax's Daughters received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Zin contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny Magazine’s Hugo Award-winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Their short story "The Night Sun" and flash fiction "teatime" were published on Tor.com. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Zin is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic narration, and beautifully written. I was drawn into the story immediately.