Sea Hearts and Sea Horses: A Breathtaking Mix of Myth, Mystery, and Sea-woven Wonder
by Julie KusmaPublish: Jun 17, 2025Teen & Young AdultBook Overview
Sea Hearts and Sea Horses is a mesmerizing collection of short stories that explores the strange, beautiful, and often haunting connection between the human spirit and the sea. Within these pages, the ocean is more than setting—it is presence, mirror, and catalyst.Each story invites readers into a world where the boundaries between land and water, human and creature, self and other begin to dissolve. Here, silence holds meaning, wildness watches from the depths, and love sometimes arrives in forms we do not recognize—until we do.
Themes of transformation, identity, longing, and isolation ripple through every tale. Some characters seek escape. Others search for home. All are drawn to the water’s edge, where something ancient and unknowable waits just beneath the surface.
This collection is ideal for readers who are drawn to emotional speculative fiction, lyrical prose, and quiet, character-driven storytelling. If you enjoy mythic undertones, speculative worlds rooted in feeling, and tales that linger long after the last page, Sea Hearts and Sea Horses will speak to you.
Perfect for fans of Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and the eerie tenderness of The Shape of Water, this book blends the natural with the supernatural, the poetic with the precise.
Let yourself be carried by the current. The sea has something to tell you.
