Flower and Weed

"Flower and Weed" is a short story glimpse into the vividly imagined world of Margo Lanagan's powerful, multi-award-winning novel Sea Hearts (also published as The Brides of Rollrock Island). Selkies are in the background, but this is a story of a liaison between a selkie's earthly husband and one of the witches who does the magic that's essential to keeping the selkie-wife trade going.