Water
to Water
by
Karen A. Wyle
Genre:
Science Fiction
Two
young Vushla questioned what everyone knew about death. What should
they do with the answer?
When the time comes for
Vushla to die, they go into the ocean and are dissolved away. Or so
Terrill has always believed, and still believes after taking part in
his father's final journey. But when he meets a young Vushlu who
lives by the sea, Terrill must confront information that calls this
fundamental belief into question. Will the two of them discover
the truth? And what should they do with what they find?
EXCERPT:
Honnu squatted by the campfire, all four
legs comfortably sunk in the sand, his lower armor sealed tight to keep sand
out, and watched the procession approach the sea. It was a small group, with
only one young Vushlu among the older ones. A funeral, then. The young one must
be the son or daughter of the Vushlu, aging or ailing, whose funeral it was.
Honnu turned away before the group reached
the edge of the water. He knew, of course, what would happen, but he had no
wish to watch. After all, he lived with the ocean, lived from it, rode out
every day to toss the nets and haul them back. He and his family depended on
the ocean. But he often thought he must feel like a farmer with a very, very
large and powerful bull. Such a useful animal — it sired strong beasts like
itself, and it pulled plows through earth too sticky for pull-cycles. But it
could, any time it chose to, trample the farmer into jelly. The farmer could
hope that the bull would never turn on its master. Honnu lived with the certain
knowledge that one day, the ocean would reveal itself as the largest possible
beast, and devour him whole.
No, he had no need to watch it happen to
others, not when he would be paddling the boat out again tomorrow morning.
Karen
A. Wyle was born a Connecticut Yankee, but eventually settled in
Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University. She now considers
herself a Hoosier. Wyle's childhood ambition was to be the youngest
ever published novelist. While writing her first novel at age 10, she
was mortified to learn that some British upstart had beaten her to
the goal at age 9.
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