Genres: Fantasy, Rural Fantasy
Cast of Wonder 665: A Siren Stranded in a Sea of Grass
Show Notes
Episode art adapted from an image by Ralf Kunze from Pixabay
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A Siren Stranded in a Sea of Grass
by Courtney Farr
1. Sowing
The Great Plains can be disorientatingly flat, feeling more akin to the distant oceans than to the forests or mountains of neighboring states. In a tiny oasis anchored by a gnarled old bur oak, two friends lay on a plaid blanket, the ripening wheat spreading out from them as far as the eye could see. The tree once identified the border between two fields, before GPS, satellites and computer mapping rendered the old markers unnecessary.
“I thought sirens lived in the sea?” the farm boy asked his companion. (Continue Reading…)