I Read Stories: The Drowning Bones by A R Frederiksen

 

The Drowning Bones by A R Fredericksen in Haven Spec

It’s when Rory’s gills come in that things start to go wrong between her mother and father. He always knew and he picked her. Knew that she had the power to sing, when she was in the water, to sing, and call him to her, and drown him.

And she never did. She never sang.

But Rory is young and she almost drowns a hiker. And then one day her father is walking to the water before she stops. He picked his wife. He didn’t choose his daughter. He didn’t choose this.

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