From the Sea

By Brent Knowles

A fisherman realizes that his adult son has learned all the wrong lessons from him after they save a drowning woman from the sea.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brent Knowles
• Release date: Feb 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458010698

Brent Knowles

Brent Knowles is a writer, programmer, and game designer. He worked at the role-playing game studio BioWare (Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Dragon Age) for ten years, during most of which he was a Lead Designer/Creative Director. Now he writes full time. He has been published in a variety of magazines including Neo-Opsis, On Spec, and Tales of the Talisman. In 2009 Brent placed first in the third quarter of the Writer’s of the Future Contest. He is also a member of SF Canada: Canada’s National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals

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From the Sea

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Brent Knowles

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From the Sea

Copyright © 2009 by Brent Knowles

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This story was originally published in On Spec #78.

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From the Sea

Leave it be! Geff shouted.

Warren could barely hear his son's voice over the roar of the storm. Rain splattered down his cloak, his wide-brimmed hat keeping the water from his face. Arms trembling, Warren heaved a final time and pulled the net free of the water, dragging the mermaid aboard.

Throw it back, old man! The panic and uncertainty in Geff's voice had more to do with the mermaid than the violent, churning waters. Geff loved the sea and could tolerate, even enjoy, her capricious nature, but Warren knew the thought of a mermaid onboard made his son's skin shiver. They could change your luck, or so the old-timers liked to say.

Warren freed the unconscious woman from the net. Her thick brown