Published: March 03, 2012
Words: 10,491 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476359021

Short description

The witch Meriel keeps the sea god, Galo, captive on the shore with a generational old curse. When Meriel falls in love with the shapeshifting woman, Nor, the entire world may pay the price as the curse falters.

Extended description

The witch Meriel has spent her entire life in the lighthouse on tiny Bound Island. Upon the distant shore prowls an ancient sea god kept captive by a generations-old spell, a spell that Meriel alone must protect.

Meriel's life has been lonely and unchanging--until the arrival of Nor. Nor's shape is that of a woman, but her heart belongs to the sea. Even though Nor is also held captive by Meriel's spell, she shows kindness to the isolated witch. Nor sparks a passion within Meriel, defying every law that binds them both.

This award-winning short story ("The Witch Sea" won first place in the "Kissed by Venus" Fresh Voices short story competition) is a dark fantasy tale of love, loss and the price of freedom.

Tags

gay, lesbian, speculative fiction, dark fantasy, witch, glbt, shapeshifter, lesbian fantasy, glbtq, lesbian witch, lesbian genre fiction

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Review by: humanitysdarkerside on May 02, 2013 :
I love this cover. "Flying Fish" was painted by the Victorian painter Herbert James Draper. It illustrates perfectly the longing of the witch in the novel. In my head that is what "The Witch Sea" is about. Longing to belong, to have someone to love and to love you back.

Being responsible for holding the magical net surrounding her island is becoming a difficult task for Meriel. She is no longer certain of the beliefs that her mother and grandmother have tried to imprint on her.

Both Meriel's longing and the longing of the sea-people shines through Diemer's prose. Very minor-key and absolutely lovely.

The author makes a point of this being a lesbian fantasy short story. Once it was pointed out to me, I could see it.

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"The Witch Sea" won first place in the "Kissed by Venus Fresh Voices" short story competition.
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Review by: Arch DeNight on April 19, 2013 :
No one is completely good or bad. A "good" person can be "bad" when we see him/her from different perspective. A "bad" person may never be as bad as what we think of him/her. Many times, we need to step out of our self-built boundaries and tear down all the stereotype attached to one person to see right from wrong. That's what I learn from "The Witch Sea". Sarah Diemer did a very good job in showing the in-group/out-group bias through her writing. And now is our turn to see through it all in real life. Totally worth reading.
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Review by: J. Ellyne on Feb. 07, 2013 :
I loved the Witch Sea, a story of magic and enchantment mostly, rather than erotica, but very much a F/F love story. The protagonist (or is she actually the villain?) is a witch and her nemesis is a god of the sea. They are caught in a generation long struggle which comes to a climax when the sea god sends one of his creatures to the witch, in human form, to seduce her. They fall in love slowly. The sea creature wants to go home to the sea but the witch's magic is keeping her, the sea god, and many of his creatures, trapped on the land with a net of magic, woven originally by her grandmother. The crux of the plot is, if the witch truly loves the sea creature, she will let her go back to the sea. But then she will never see her again. It is only toward the end of the story that they finally go to bed together. The sex is described in romantic rather than pornographic terms, and it's sooooooo beautiful. So is the ending and I won't spoil it. You should read this story.
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Review by: J. Ellyne on Feb. 07, 2013 :
I loved the Witch Sea, a story of magic and enchantment mostly, rather than erotica, but very much a F/F love story. The protagonist (or is she actually the villain?) is a witch and her nemesis is a god of the sea. They are caught in a generation long struggle which comes to a climax when the sea god sends one of his creatures to the witch, in human form, to seduce her. They fall in love slowly. The sea creature wants to go home to the sea but the witch's magic is keeping her, the sea god, and many of his creatures, trapped on the land with a net of magic, woven originally by her grandmother. The crux of the plot is, if the witch truly loves the sea creature, she will let her go back to the sea. But then she will never see her again. It is only toward the end of the story that they finally go to bed together. The sex is described in romantic rather than pornographic terms, and it's sooooooo beautiful. So is the ending and I won't spoil it. You should read this story.
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Review by: Sophia DeLuna on Feb. 05, 2013 :
A beautiful, touching story. Thanks for an enjoyable and thought-provoking read.
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Review by: Aster Zhen on Nov. 05, 2012 :
This was thoughtful and lovely, I really enjoyed it.
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Review by: Kat V on March 15, 2012 :
A beautiful, vividly descriptive, poignant short story. I loved it!
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Review by: Jessica Stubbs on March 13, 2012 :
Loved this story- short and sweet! Really enjoyable, with a lot of depth. I was delighted with how quickly I was sucked into the story and how beautifuly it flowed. Fantastic!
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Review by: girafferiffic on March 03, 2012 :
I first read this short story in "Kissed by Venus" magazine, and while I enjoyed that version very much, this new "extended" version is so beautiful that it blows the old one out of the water. The story we find here is not only a touching love story, but a poignant coming-of-age tale. I thought the way Meriel grew as a character throughout the story-- as she began to challenge the things she'd always believed in, and find herself as her own person rather than just her mother and grandmother's successor-- was very nicely done. I really felt for both Meriel and Nor, and, surprisingly, even for the "villain," Galo, who came to life very movingly in an assortment of new scenes not found in the "Kissed by Venus" version. The final resolution had me smiling through tears. This is a wonderful, bittersweet story and I loved absolutely every minute of it.
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