geekyA 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.
August 24 2012, 15:45:48 UTC 4 years ago Edited: August 24 2012, 15:46:37 UTC
Question, which you may not be able to (or want to) answer...but if Liz's mother had held strong, or if Liz had...would the Luidaeg ever have told Liz who she was or how the selkies were made? Or would she just have enjoyed her not-selkie love, and let her stay happily ignorant?
(Edited to add: this was LOVELY. It punched me in the gut so hard, so effectively, that I completely forgot to SAY. Also, I just want to hug and comfort them both, and it's a good thing they're fictional, because I think that urge would just piss the Luidaeg RIGHT off.)
August 24 2012, 16:55:00 UTC 4 years ago
August 24 2012, 17:04:49 UTC 4 years ago