Status Updates From One Saved to the Sea

Too description-heavy; slow and boring.

"Watch how these friends and neighbors of yours fight each other to take that pelt away from you. They'll prison you in that fine white skin of yours, shackle you to a man you don't want, give you pups just as crippled as yourself, and take away yhour every chance to get back to the sea."
-Well, she certainly makes her case.

Mairead didn't even know how to rank her sins in order. Woman with woman? Woman unwedded, surrendered to lust in heathen arms? Or did the selkie not count as a woman at all in God's eyes?
No. Mairead gave a defiant glance at the silvering horizon and decided that the brief summer night did not have room for sins it it. Sin and guilt and the coming storm could all wait for the morning.

"This is the God that made you, just as you are; who knows everything about you, and who still thinks you're worthy of salvation. Can you really think he doesn't understand what you feel?"
-A nice thought, to be sure

Such a sweet and satisfying read, now for review brewing time!

Amazing how the truth can set you free.

Damn her eyes, why did she have to weep when she wanted to spit with rage? Why did tears always turn her anger soft and sloppy and silly?

Never thought I'd say this, but...

Had to look up the prnounciation of Mairead. It's like parade with an m.

“She bit the scarred flipper as she came…”

lovely stuff! expected no less from Catt. full review to follow when I'm less wiped.

worth staying awake for!