Rereading Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror.
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts" by Sonya Taaffe is just heartbreaking.
Lovecraft created Innsmouth and Deep Ones as odes to his xenophobic fear of miscegenation and race mixing.
I've read many stories that studied them with a more nuanced eye and this is one of the best. What does it mean to have your heritage blasted and erased by an angry government? How does your diluted bloodline fair when the dreams start?
I've read Ruthanna Emrys and this story could easily fit in her world.
Sympathy for anyone who's ever felt alone and apart, for those who were loved but never understood.
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