Author

Christina Sng

Christina Sng is the Bram Stoker and Elgin Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017) and Astropoetry (Alban Lake Publishing, 2017). Her fiction has appeared in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Frostfire Worlds, Grievous Angel, New Myths, and Space and Time. This is Christina's first appearance in Daily Science Fiction.

The Goblin

Its face is still. I peer warily at the body sitting at the bottom of the sea, half-shrouded in shadows. My heart pounds in the dark, bubbles escaping to the surface just as I long to, but cannot. Okay, get it together, I remind myself. This is your job. Get it done. I shine a…