Read by Michael J. DeLuca.

The next night was much the same. I began to recollect certain old fables about a preadamitic race of ensouled decapods that did battle with the giant eurypterids and ammonites of the whirlpools in the southern straits. Do you see? I thought of the sea-folk only after their first appearance. And yet my labors were their ineluctable summons, as I had known (without knowing) that they would be.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 26:22 — 18.11MB)
Subscribe:

Read “At the Edge of the Sea” by Raphael Ordoñez, in Issue #144

Read Comments on this Story (2 Comments)

Raphael Ordoñez is a mildly autistic writer and circuit-riding college professor living in the Texas hinterlands, eighty miles from the nearest bookstore. His stories have appeared multiple times in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and his novels, the first two in a planned tetralogy, are available from Hythloday House. He blogs sporadically about fantasy, writing, art, and life at raphordo.blogspot.com.

Return to Issue #145
Return to Audio Fiction