sky & sea
Issue 1 ✷ June 2020
Of Saltwater and Scales
Sentenced to death, Kaia finds herself offered to the serpent that rules the sea outside of her city. Instead of being devoured, she awakens on an island of women who were also saved by Galen, a man bound to the water and his serpent form. Given a second chance at life, she finds herself determined to follow her heart, even when it means defying the sea itself.
The Price of Silver and Gold
Liyotte may not have expected love in her marriage, but she at least had thought she wouldn’t wish to murder her husband in earnest. Six years after starting to dream of it, the stars were aligning and it was time to fly.
The Last of the Great Gods
A mountain spirit roams the wasteland of her home, desperate to rebuild a world long dead, hungry for anything that will make it matter. When the arrival of a visitor from beyond the horizon disrupts her routines, she begins to see the past and her desires in a new light.
Seafoam
She wasn’t a real mermaid. Rick knew that. Nadine was simply playing the role for the tourist pirate show, same as him. But the more he flounders, searching for a purpose, any purpose outside of the pretend world of pirates and mermaids, the more he wonders…
what if?
Tempest Treachery
“I never should have let you on my ship,” she hisses with an anger she feels deep in the marrow of her bones. Her wrists are bound behind her back as his men haul her towards the mainmast where what remains of her crew are being tied up.
Above Us Only
It’s been a long time Vera and Sabine have talked, but when Sabine’s mother passes away, she asks Vera to come along on a trip to her family cabin on the lake. During their stay, the women wrestle with complicated feelings towards their past, their present, and each other. Meanwhile, something strange is happening in the water.
The Salt and the Sweet
The Avians and the Merfolk have been at war for longer than either of them can recall. Raised to kill or be killed, winged huntress Enara has been taught to hate and fear the ones that live beneath the waves. But when when chance throws her in peril with one of her enemies, she’s forced to confront her ignorance, and her growing desires.
Last Resort
Brit Taylor has a wedding planning business, a master’s degree, and a severe concussion.
John Evans owns the lakeside resort where Brit decides to spend her recovery time. Seven days tripping over her own feet with no computers or phones probably won’t kill either of them. Right?
Milkshake
“Milkshake” is the featured artwork for our June issue of 2020, “Sky & Sea.”