One thing is definite about Toronto’s Tightrope Books: they know a good short story when they see one. In 2016, they published Danila Botha’s excellent collection of short stories For All of the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known which met with great success. Now I have just finished reading two more fine …
Pratap Reddy is the author of two books, 2018’s Ramya’s Treasure and his 2016 collection of short stories Weather Permitting and Other Stories. Both books are published by Montreal’s Guernica Editions and were also longlisted here at The Miramichi Reader for “The Very Best!” Book Award for Fiction.
A team of researchers from a nearby university have set up a research station in a fictional outport in Newfoundland, studying the strange emergence of phosphorescent tides. And Vivienne, a young assistant, accidentally captures a creature unknown to science: a kind of fish, both sentient and distinctly female. As the project supervisor and lead researcher attempt to exploit the discovery, the creature begins to waste away, and Vivian must endanger herself to save them both.
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