Narrated by M.K. Hobson.

We cannot go landwise. Too vulnerable for a start, and the finless watch their beaches like crabs, scuttling this way and that, their eyes pinched and ugly. They have set a line of posts on the edge of the world, deep in the sands. Each spike bears the head of one of our risen. We do not care. The risen have gone to the Great Water where they will fish and fight for all eternity.

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Read “I Will Sing Your White Bones Home” by Cat Hellisen, in Issue #356

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Cat Hellisen is a South African writer and artist living in Scotland. Their work has appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Apex, Shimmer, and on tor.com, and their novel Cast Long Shadows, a retelling of Snow White from the stepmother's point of view, comes out in June 2022. You can follow them on twitter @cat_hellisen.

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