She did not choose motherhood, the pregnancy was not planned nor was it hoped for. The hard choices of duty and personal sacrifice eclipse whatever personal freedoms Iraxi would otherwise have amid all of this, which isn’t to say she has many to begin with. Iraxi’s struggle with her desire to get rid of her baby, but knowing her child may be the only one born on the ark at all, is disquieting. Rocklyn captures the bodily, while also the dissociation that comes with pregnancy. We feel every tooth grating, cramp, and soreness.

Iraxi, a strong, but wounded character, carries the story through sheer force of will. Spurned by everyone around her, Iraxi turns inward and little does she realize how much may be in store for her.Ī mixture of both dark fantasy and dystopia come together for a blended immersion, and one cannot shake the eeriness. Her fellow passengers scrap together a meager existence alongside her, after embarking with a calamity nipping at their heels. Iraxi is a pregnant outcast, attempting to survive on board an ark that is beginning to fall apart. C.Few novels, let alone novellas, elicit the kind of atmosphere and body-ness that Flowers For The Sea by Zin E.

Episode 542-Just Us and Tracy’s 100th Episode.

Episode 543-With Boyd and Beth Morrison.

Episode 549-With Lynne Marie Thomas from Uncanny Magazine.

Episode 552-With Rena Mason and Vince Liaguno.

Episode 560-With Wendy and Richard Pini.

Episode 575-With Station 151’s Steve Scearce and Bear Weiter.

Episode 577-With Life Beyond Us’s Julie Novakova and Susan Forest.

Patrick: Only Murders In The Building (Hulu).

Zin: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (Shudder).

Zin is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Their short story “The Night Sun” and flash fiction “teatime” were published on Tor.com. Zin contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny Magazine’s Hugo Award-winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Their story “Summer Skin” in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology Sycorax’s Daughters received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Rocklyn is a contributor to Bram Stoker-nominated and This is Horror Award-winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, and Forever Vacancy anthologies and Weird Luck Tales No. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine.Ībout Zin E.

Their fangs are sharp.Īmong the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she’s pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark.

Rocklyn, author of Flowers for the Sea.Ībout Flowers for the Sea: We are a people who do not forget. This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Zin E.

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