Of Vast Oceans

You see that great big sea up there? I know the angle isn't perfectly logical, but it gives you an idea of the perspective taken by my lost astronaut in "Vast Oceans".  Lost and abandoned on a planet with no more than a small spit of land and vast oceans all around, there is very little she can do but think, remember, feel claustrophobic, and lose hope. There is no sun here, only one great moon and the movement of the great green and black oceans all around her, that and the inkling that she is not truly alone.  I drew the idea from a few things, images in my head, a dream I've had since I was small about being killed by a tidal wave, a few songs and the idea of writing in my favorite sci-fi genre where horror and sci-fi meet in the isolation of space.  This one has been eating up my brain off and on since it hit me and I've not had a lot of time to work on it with a lot of editing work to do. This is also why I have not had much time for updates on my writing of late. I'm happy to say this is one of many stories you can expect to see from me this year in various anthologies from JEA :) This in addition to Cool Green Waters of course! 
Here's a sample from the story: 


I used to have dreams about a very old city of bright white walls and warm earthen streets. I was a child in that city, not more than 6 or 8 and I was alone, happy and utterly safe. But then it was dark and the bright blue green sea I knew and loved was above me. Higher and higher it rose, one great and terrible god crashing down so hard and so fast that I did not even have a moment to gasp in a breath before it was in me, was me, took everything that was and could ever be in my small life and snuffed it out. In that dream, that memory, I remember the great warm sea swallowing me up and then I was at the bottom of it, watching as the world came crashing down in that place, the thud and whoosh of great statues, great stones coming down through the water as I ceased to be.

I knew the bottom of that great sea, I know the sound of vast oceans from an impossible dream and now...

Now, here I am, lost and alone on a planet in the midst of another galaxy, a planet made up of vast oceans and me, only me, in the middle of the only spit of land on the entire planet.


And yet...somehow I know that I am not truly alone... - from Vast Oceans from Fearotica

Below check out some of the songs that inspired this one.