Author

Therese Pieczynski

Therese Pieczynski has published stories in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and the anthology Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, The Literated Artwork of Alan M. Clark. Most recently her novelette "Strange Attraction" was chosen by Nancy Kress to accompany her novella "Annabel Lee" as part of the Stellar Guild series published by Arc Manor. The two stories will appear as a stand-alone volume in October 2013.

The Man and the River

Once upon a time in a far kingdom, there lived a man who fell in love with a river and so he married it. One day, as he sat happily in the river, he glimpsed something. It moved swiftly beneath the surface, dark and strong. As it swam by, he grabbed it by the tail and it pulled…