Broken Paradise

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shirley Jackson Awards Shortlist</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>BSFA Awards for Best Shorter Fiction Shortlist</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans Shortlist</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>After falling out with her brothers Samaki the goddess of water flees to Earth where she must mask her trace by splitting into a quadruplet of magi.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>A quadruplet is perfect but all things are never equal. Dissonance arises when the magus Umozi breaks the quadruplet.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Only the newness of a child magus can restore balance and save a broken paradise-with the help of a goddess mother. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p>A dark fantasy of gods magic and family-what happens when they break.</p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>After falling out... </p>