When the Tides Held the Moon

by Venessa Vida Kelley

“Your skepticism is human. Your kind worships your individuality, injuring yourselves in the delusion of being separate from each other and the world,” he explained without his usual snobbishness. “The children of Neptune live as waves on the water—unique and separate only in appearance, for we are united in spirit by the vastest element on earth. Thus, when the Currents call, we obey.”

we age too slowly to behave like time is a thing you can outswim if you fill it up with enough doing.”