Cymodoce

Tales Told Round Celestial Campfires

by Joseph Carrabis

A loving father sees his child as a gift and not a commodity, someone to teach and guide and let grow into who she wants to be. But he's a merman and her mother is not. Does the mother have the right to keep her child on land when she knows the child's life is best in the sea?

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2015

About the author

Joseph Carrabis is a master storyteller with a sharp sense of humor and linguistic expertise. Hailing from New Hampshire, USA, his passion for writing began at the tender age of seven while washing dishes with his older sister, Sandra. She’d read ‘Mission to the Heart Stars’ for a book report and shared her fascination and excitement over the story. Joseph, a plate in one hand and a dish towel in the other decided, “I want to give that to people.” With a career deeply embedded in evolving technologies, Joseph served as Chief Research Officer, Chief Neuroscience Officer, and Senior Research Fellow at several institutions and agencies while earning numerous awards for his journalism and trade technical writing.

Joseph refers to himself as boring - something loudly debunked by his readers and peers - and weaves wildly imaginative stories that dance on the boundary of the known and unknown sciences where natural, preternatural and supernatural intersect. Fans’ comments regularly mention Carrabis’ ability to bring together advanced mathematics, quantum physics, cybernetics, and neuroscience with believable multi-dimensional characters and spellbinding future technology. Joseph has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, recommended for a Nebula Award, and received an honorable mention in ‘Writers of the Future’.

Reviews

[Sabine Rossbach · Rating 5 out of 5]

The fact that, of all of Joseph's writings, I read exactly this short story first, is proof that no-thing is accidental...

A feast for someone who loves the written word, likes to think out of the box, and who feels like a fish in the water when one with this element 🌊🐬💦

Storytelling at its best 😃!