The Stars and the Cookie Jar

I'm about to sequester for a few days and finish this draft of Seal Wife. I'm able to say a bit more about it now.

Told in the style of an oral narrative -- a story for telling -- The Seal Wife is about how choices and chance shape a life. The Seal Wife lives in her own strange, rich, narrow world, proscribed by the choices she makes, driven to growth and change by the people who cross her threshold and sit by her hearth. She has to learn what she's longing for before she can go and find it; and no one's going to bring it to her.

The story's been in my head for a while; it's all in my head now, and I want to see if I can get it out.


copperbadge has proven indispensable, with musing and music, and yuki_onna kept my arms warm at work, and la_rainette has lent grace and courage and balance, and darthrami wove the pelt. But Sonya was first; she sang it first; she tells it still. Thank you.