Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Dar Williams, "We Learned the Sea."

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea...

I promised you a treat to celebrate the impending release of Ashes of Honor, and here it is:

A brand-new story about the Luidaeg, "In Sea-Salt Tears," has been posted on the equally brand-new Toby Daye short fiction page. It is available in ePub, MOBI, and PDF formats, and is free for download. (So far, this is the only free Toby-universe short story. We'll be adding listings for the published-in-books shorts in a little while, but it's not hyper-high priority.)

This story is best read after One Salt Sea, and it further details the relationship between the Luidaeg and Elizabeth Ryan, the Selkie clan leader we met at the very end of the book. Please download rather than trying to read locally; my server will thank you.

Cover graphics are by Tara O'Shea. All short story electronic conversion thus far has been done by scifantasy. As both of them are awesome, we applaud them now.

Go forth, read, and please feel free to use this as a discussion post, which means there may be spoilers in the comments. Tread carefully.

Enjoy.
Tags: ashes of honor, short fiction, toby daye
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shiyiya

August 23 2012, 23:32:54 UTC 4 years ago

I screamed joyfully. Downloaded. Started crying after the first HALF A PAGE. Was sobbing my eyes out by the end.

YOU ARE MAGIC.

(Also my brain decided to produce related words to that, rather than words in any of the stories I'm trying to work on. Okay then, brain.:

And how could you hate her for it? Selkie child without a skin, forever dreaming of the sea… How much would you give to go home? What would you do to feel yourself slide into the shape every particle of you had longed for since your first breath?
Can you say you would not have chosen the same, in her place?
)

jenfullmoon

August 23 2012, 23:58:15 UTC 4 years ago

I would have, no question. It's kinda unfair for ah, Annie to even think she could do otherwise.

shiyiya

August 24 2012, 00:12:49 UTC 4 years ago

I doubt she really expected it - just hoped. And couldn't look at the murder of her children.

(Oh my god, the descriptions of "Annie"'s bright clean apartment broke my heart into little tiny pieces. Oh, Luidaeg.)

seanan_mcguire

August 24 2012, 16:52:15 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you, honey. :)