If he held his fingers just right, Seth could see the sun glow through his flesh. But now the sun weakened as September waned, and the bustle of the bayfront dwindled as the last of summer’s tourists nabbed their trinkets and headed back to parts unknown, but likely to work and to school. Such was the way of Septembers at Cape Slattery: the sea sighed, and the winds lowed, the sands shifted, and the world pivoted ahead of the equinox, and the winding down of the year.
Issue 8
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Jendia Gammon is the author of novels and short stories spanning several genres. She is also a science writer and artist, and writes under the pen name J. Dianne Dotson, including her short story collection The Shadow Galaxy.