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  ZIN E. ROCKLYN is a contributor to Bram Stoker Award–nominated and This is Horror Award–winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, Forever Vacancy: A Colors in Darkness Anthology, and Weird Luck Tales No. 7. Their story “Summer Skin,” in the Bram Stoker Award–nominated anthology Sycorax’s Daughters, received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Rocklyn contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny’s Hugo Award–winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! issue. Their short story “The Night Sun” and flash fiction “teatime” were published on Tor.com. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Rocklyn is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate, as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate.

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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Author’s Note

  PART I: BURIED

  PART II: SEEDLING

  PART III: ROOTS

  PART IV: EPHYRA

  PART V: IMPRINT

  PART VI: TANNINS

  PART VII: OFFERING

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Copyright Page

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novella are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  FLOWERS FOR THE SEA

  Copyright © 2021 by Zin E. Rocklyn

  All rights reserved.

  Edited by Ruoxi Chen

  Cover art by Xia Gordon

  Cover design by Christine Foltzer

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  ISBN 978-1-250-80404-4 (ebook)

  ISBN 978-1-250-80403-7 (trade paperback)

  First Edition: October 2021

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