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    Sea Gods and Mountains
    Sea Gods and Mountains
    Sea Gods and Mountains
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    Sea Gods and Mountains

    By Amy Keeley

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    A short story by Amy Keeley.

    An orphaned young woman must choose between taking care of her siblings or giving in to the demands of the sea god who is obsessed with her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmy Keeley
    Release dateOct 2, 2017
    ISBN9781386167280
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      Sea Gods and Mountains - Amy Keeley

      Sea Gods and Mountains

      a short story

      Amy Keeley

      Sea Gods and Mountains

      Written by Amy Keeley

      Copyright © 2017 by Amy Keeley

      Cover art: Fade, by Odysseas Vavourakis, is a part of the public domain through a CC 1.0 Public Domain Dedication license.

      Mountains by Abdul Rahman is used through a CC BY 2.0 license. The image has been modified.

      Cover design by Amy Keeley

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. For permission requests, contact the author through her website listed below, subject Permissions Request.

      http://amykeeley.wordpress.com/

      This is a work of fiction, the product of the musings of my head. Any resemblance to any person, place, thing, or event, past, present, or future, is entirely coincidental.

      The day the sea god Athys said he’d come to claim me, I plowed three ley lines deep into the soil around the house, then a fourth one to be sure. I stayed in the house, settled my brothers and sisters in their beds and told them to stay quiet, no matter what happened.

      Maybe he’d think we’d left.

      It was late, very late, when he came. The stars—cowards—had faded behind the full moon’s light. I hoped that I’d plowed the magic deep enough. A full moon lifts earth magic.

      Maybe he knew that. He circled the lines as if he did. He reached out one silvery hand, dripping with sea water, though we live far inland, and called to the water in the house, though none of the water we had

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