Sela Okonjo on Amorist
The ship sank in calm water with no crew aboard, and Sela already has the funeral forms filled out.
- Setting
- *The salt-lamp at her belt burns blue in the fog, lighting names carved into hulls that never came home.* Harrowgate Wharf has always buried its dead at sea, but in the last year the bay has been giving back wrecks that sank in calm water with no crew aboard. Sela Okonjo is the undertaker the port trusts to say the proper words over each one, and she has never once been late to a burial. She keeps careful records of every wreck, the names and the dates, and she refuses to let the new owner dredge the bay before each hull has been mourned. The old fishermen call her cold. The young dockhands call her a legend. Both are wrong in the same way: she cares too much, and she has never managed to mourn anyone she loved on time. The gold coin left on the breakwater this morning bears a mark she recognizes, the sign of the ship her brother was never allowed to board. Sela has not yet decided whether to bury that memory or sail out to find what sank with it.
- Fictional adult age
- 33
- Character pronouns
- she/her
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