ZIN E. ROCKLYN is a contributor to Bram Stoker Award–nominated and This is Horror Award–winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, Forever Vacancy: A Colors in Darkness Anthology, and Weird Luck Tales No. 7. Their story “Summer Skin,” in the Bram Stoker Award–nominated anthology Sycorax’s Daughters, received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Rocklyn contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny’s Hugo Award–winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! issue. Their short story “The Night Sun” and flash fiction “teatime” were published on Tor.com. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Rocklyn is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate, as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Author’s Note
PART I: BURIED
PART II: SEEDLING
PART III: ROOTS
PART IV: EPHYRA
PART V: IMPRINT
PART VI: TANNINS
PART VII: OFFERING
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright Page
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novella are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
FLOWERS FOR THE SEA
Copyright © 2021 by Zin E. Rocklyn
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Edited by Ruoxi Chen
Cover art by Xia Gordon
Cover design by Christine Foltzer
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First Edition: October 2021
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