Salt Water | Tor.com

Salt Water | Tor.com

[ad_1] While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa’s fish becoming something else?     Anissa touches the small round bone sprouting from the fish’s back. The fish is a small, electric blue acara, with black eyes. It’s cute but it’s only a fish. Anissa feeds pellets to the fish as … Read more

Blurring Relationship Boundaries in “Thirst for Salt” – Chicago Review of Books

Blurring Relationship Boundaries in “Thirst for Salt” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Our unnamed narrator meets Jude, a local antique dealer and washed-up actor, while on vacation with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Jude is forty-two. Our narrator is twenty-four. Jude recognizes her copy of Marguerite Duras’s The Lover. Our narrator is smitten. And so we embark on a doomed romance serving as … Read more