TITLE: SECRET
GENRE: Adult SECRET
Sestra worked the oars through the endless ocean, sinking them into the thick blue and pulling them up translucent in the sun. Every bit of her dripped either from the salty spray or sweat. She’d been rowing for hours now, and the sun reclined at a comfortable high noon position. It had been dark when she left.
Water lapped up between the cracks in her raft. She hadn’t sealed it as well as she’d wanted, but she hadn’t exactly planned this. Or she had, but not quite so soon. Sestra had always known that she’d run away someday. It was just what she did.
She wasn’t sure where she was going. She knew what she was looking for, just not where it was exactly. So she rowed and rowed, like every day, a combination of rowing and floating and rowing again. After the flood, that’s all there was to do.
Miss Snark's First Victim
LITERARY FICTION
ReplyDeleteThis one was hard, but it's a survival story, it seems. No hints of fantasy, or real hints at women's fiction. So I would categorize this more generally.
Adventure.
ReplyDeleteThe tone of "thick blue and pulling them up translucent in the sun" make this sound like the MC is in for a adventure.
Dystopian. Because of the flood forcing her to row on an ocean.
ReplyDeleteDystopian adventure. I love the detail in the first sentence!
ReplyDeleteFantasy
ReplyDeleteOnly because I can't imagine a modern woman paddling a raft anywhere. It seems she's using some type of disaster to disappear from a life she doesn't much like.
Fantasy, because of her name.
ReplyDeleteI Can't Tell. Alice makes a good point though; the name has a Fantasy ring to it.
ReplyDeleteDystopian
ReplyDeleteBut it was hard to tell until mention of the flood. Then I connected it to "endless sea" which at first came off as a metaphor to me. Once I read about the flood I realized the sea really is endless! :) Without mention of flood, I would have no clue of genre though.
Dystopian. Because of the flood and her name.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell.
ReplyDeleteI'm leaning towards fantasy or science fiction, though. Her name and the mention of a flood make it feel like she's somewhere else.
I can't tell. Kept trying to picture how oars would be mounted on a raft. Somehow, it seemed this detail would help me know the genre.
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