hello friends, here is my flights of foundry schedule for next week ~ in which i may or may not talk about my wip & will def talk about @anathemamagazine.bsky.social 💜
P. H. Low
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THESE DEATHLESS SHORES • poetry ed @Anathema • short fic/poetry/essays in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy, &c. • Ignyte, Rhysling, & Locus noms • 🇲🇾🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (they/them) • linktr.ee/lowph
![[chapter marker—a silhouette of a fairy]
The Island tracked everything that washed ashore.
An invisible barrier surrounded it, a shimmering wall
a hundred kilometers in every direction. Canoes sank in
crossing; navigators lost sight of the stars. Later, trawlers and
airplanes split themselves against nothing, and the probes
they sent into the water returned out of sync or cracked
precisely down the middle.
Only the birds arrived unscathed. Only the foxes, floating
in on driftwood rafts.
So the Island embraced them with limestone arms and
swaying trees – as it did the corpses, the broken gunports.
Death is the way of things, after all, and who was it to
question the sea?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3yjzasbymajtauls5m5arvd/bafkreigmi2w5u2nn6v6gmxlliwkhmjxyqkquismnhrftbi3l45pkc46viy)
![Cropped photo of a page in SUNRISE ON THE REAPING that says QUARTER QUELL (TRIB)UTE ROSTER
District 2
Boy Alpheus
Girl Camilla
Boy Janus
Girl Nona
Red line points from Alpheus to a Wikipedia screenshot that reads Alpheus Deity—Alpheus or Alpheios, was in Greek mythology a river and river god. Wikipedia
Two red lines point from Janus to a photo of a Janus sculpture and screenshot of a Wikipedia entry that reads: "In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/ JAY-nəs; Latin: Iānus [ˈi̯aːnʊs]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways,[2] passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces. The month of January is named for Janus"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3yjzasbymajtauls5m5arvd/bafkreidslhuu3yp3fxhscmrfhqsl7dxmwpzhaahcburjvnzdwhswjvit4u)
![Chay (given name)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chay is a masculine name. It is either a diminutive of Charles,[1] ultimately derived from Germanic Karal, Karel, Karl, meaning “man”, or it may be Gaelic in origin, meaning “Fairy Tale” [citation needed]. This unusual name surfaced into the public in Britain in the mid-1970s, with the publicity for yachtsman Chay Blyth. It is generally pronounced Sh (as in Shane) ay (as in May) (/ʃeɪ/), and sometimes pronounced Ch (as in Charles) ay (as in May) (/tʃeɪ/).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3yjzasbymajtauls5m5arvd/bafkreia5nl577y5iwihi42pwcnbyeq54z3fb34stnc6bctb67hvhxj247q)
