'In most tales of selkies it is a woman whose magical skin is stolen, who is forced to marry the lucky thief and live a life of misery, pining away for her home in the sea.
'But what if the stolen skin belongs to an infant, taken before they have memory of life under the waves?
'When Myna’s labour results in a disfigured infant, it doesn’t take much for the midwife to convince her husband the child needs to be dealt with. Years pass, and a healthy child is born. But just as Myna’s life is settling into place, she learns her first-born is still alive, that she and the child are selkies.
'Myna has a choice, retrieve her skin and return to the ocean, to the family she never knew and the daughter she’s long grieved for, or remain on land with the husband she loves, and the daughter who can never enter the sea.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Maggie and the Selkie
Golden Valley
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Quamby Press
,
2020
20858459
2020
single work
short story
fantasy
''How did you find me? Where did you come from?'
''You called me,' he said.
''I called you?' Maggie frowned. 'How?'
''You cried seven tears into the sea.'
'Grieving the loss of her husband in a boating accident, Maggie inadvertently summons a selkie man who offers comfort the only way he knows how.
'Nine months later a baby is born, but though Maggie loves him with every inch of her being, his existence isn't enough to drag her from the depths of despair.
'All Maggie wants is to shed the grief weighing her down.
'Can she return her son to his father and join the selkies herself? Or will her sorrow send them both over the edge?'
Source : publisher's blurb
