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Story Spotlight: “Aye, Plank” by Robert Jeschonek

ByBlackbird Publishing

In Robert Jeschonek’s “Aye, Plank,” the most feared instrument of pirate justice becomes the narrator of its own strange, mythic story—a tale of transformation, belonging, and the unexpected places where second chances take root. Set aboard a ship called the Defiler as it prowls Caribbean waters in 1750, this is nautical fantasy told from a…

Story spotlight: “Monkey Sea, Monkey Do” by Robert Jeschonek

ByBlackbird Publishing

When Ida got her wish to become a Sea Munky, she didn’t realize the greatest drought of all time was about to dry up the bodies of water she needed to survive. Now, in one of the last pools of water on Earth, she and her fellow aquatic creatures fight to survive an attack by…