The Five Fathoms
When the gods have love affairs, they unfold over many centuries. A wandering deity—by turns a woman, a salmon, and something else entirely that it is difficult to talk about—decides to revive her affections for the ancient Celtic god of the sea, Mannanan Mac Lir, and heads for the shoreline:
‘She’s not a Branwen or Angharad, she’s not a long rooted, long versed story of lake or hill, she is a mover and a waker and a shaker, a loose-hipped Zanzibar priestess of the blown fuse of the sacred everything, a prophetic wanderer, even if her migrations take centuries to complete. She is a great clatter-bash of gnostic lightning. Wherever she is, she can remember a place before that. She has charisma in every setting.
In the morning her mind is full of fur and light.’
The Five Fathoms by Martin Shaw, available from Hedgespoken Press (2018).
The Five Fathoms
When the gods have love affairs, they unfold over many centuries. A wandering deity—by turns a woman, a salmon, and something else entirely that it is difficult to talk about—decides to revive her affections for the ancient Celtic god of the sea, Mannanan Mac Lir, and heads for the shoreline:
‘She’s not a Branwen or Angharad, she’s not a long rooted, long versed story of lake or hill, she is a mover and a waker and a shaker, a loose-hipped Zanzibar priestess of the blown fuse of the sacred everything, a prophetic wanderer, even if her migrations take centuries to complete. She is a great clatter-bash of gnostic lightning. Wherever she is, she can remember a place before that. She has charisma in every setting.
In the morning her mind is full of fur and light.’
The Five Fathoms by Martin Shaw, available from Hedgespoken Press (2018).