A Wereshark's Memoir

<p>Novelette edition.</p><p></p><p>Expanding upon<em> </em>A Wereshark's Memoir winner of the best science fiction & fantasy short story in the 25th Annual Critters Readers' Poll (2022).</p><p></p><p>The haunting tale of an immortal sea captain through the ages.</p><p></p><p>In his magnum opus <em>Ethics </em>published posthumously in 1677<em> </em>Spinoza argues that God is substance. Evil is substance in <em>A Wereshark's Memoir </em>by Justin Sloane. Original frightening and beautiful this work is a study into the impossibility of evil to reign over the human race. It is a fiction of the open wound. It hurts and it makes you invent a therapy to alleviate pain. Often this is impossible. In a way it is a subtle analysis of what society suffers from today. As Justin Sloane puts it 'Time is neither friend nor foe. But it can be made either.'</p><p class=ql-align-right>-Zdravka Evtimova 4x best novel of Bulgaria and author of <em>He May Wear My Silence</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>With all the linguistic beauty of scientific romance and a splash of cosmic horror Mr. Sloane takes us on an aquatic romp through piracy love and death. Fans of William Hope Hodgson will want to devour this tale.</p><p class=ql-align-right>-Jean-Paul L. Garnier editor of <em>Star*Line</em> magazine and author of <em>Garbage In Gospel Out</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Justin Sloane's <em>A Wereshark's Memoir</em> is a true megalodon of a novelette howling hammerheaded through the centuries timeless like that eldest breed named for Greenland. Equal parts werewolf shark and swashbuckler who befriends Blackbeard himself Sloane's narrator sea-bewitched bioluminescent shape-shifter proves at least as haunted as a Ulysses unable ever to return home.</p><p class=ql-align-right>-Dr. Matt Schumacher editor of <em>Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism </em>and author of <em>The Fire Diaries: Poems</em></p>