by Pam Crane
float free. The baby turned in the water and stared into her mother's eyes.
Then for the very first time she smiled. It was a radiant, joyous smile! The gills opened wide, the trachea closed, and Angel was in her element at last. She would swim all her life just as Ginnie had promised - in pools, in streams, in rivers, in the open ocean. She would be studied, and filmed, and interviewed. She would grow to be beautiful, and one day at an oceanographic conference would meet a man just like herself, called Hal Ryba, with whom she would spawn the first generation of true human amphibians. The polar ice would melt; the seas would rise, drowning the civilisation whose cultural apogee brought forth Dr. Splint ... and Homo Amphibius would slowly re-colonise an ever bluer world.
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1About Pam Crane
Pam has been a poet since she was seven years old; it was only when she joined her local Writers' Club that she found she could also write short stories.
She has been a Christian astrologer for most of her life, is well known in that community, and is the author of two books plus many articles in the Astrological Association Journal (for which she compiles the regular Cryptic Crossword.)
You can find her website at https://revpamcrane.weebly.com.
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