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Selkies, Gaelic Songs, and Highlander Mythology: Short Stories

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Highlanders myths, and the songs by the people of Scotland and Ireland that they sing in Gaelic have inspired these short stories. 

I always use selkies as a way of speaking my truth. Selkies are humanoid creatures who can shapeshift between human and seal form, but they can only do this when their heart is ready and in some cases when they fall in love with a human.

I wrote The Selkie and the Wheelchair for a magazine and I decided to include it as a personal letter, dhuibhse, mo luchd-leughaidh gràdhach [to you, my darling readers].All Rights Reserved

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Selkie by SelvaTheQueen

Shara's mother has always told her to hide from humans, to never let them know that she is a selkie--a seal who becomes human when they remove their skin. She obeyed, even when her mother was taken away and left her alone. Now, she has no choice.

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Can a selkie mend his broken heart? After a car accident results in the loss of his family, memories, and empathy, Lee Kangmin finds himself trapped in a colorless world. Once considered a miraculous recovery case of retrograde amnesia, he is now one of the best neurologists in South Korea. Determined to maintain his strict routine and personal code of conduct, he is reluctant to open his heart out of fear it'll get crushed again. His desperation to maintain a shred of normalcy in his life peaks when he encounters Ariadne, whose presence forces his painful memories to break free. On the surface, she appears to be nothing more than a naive foreigner but what he doesn't know is that she's a mythical selkie from Scotland. Centuries of distrust between their races return as they learn to live with each other. Their love is tested by the gods, their people, and their past as the Llyr, the patron deity of the selkie, threaten to uproot their worlds as they know it. Together, they must reforge the broken bonds between their species in order to preserve their relationship and break the selkie's curse. • • • Word Count = 90,000-100,000 Title by @DahliasDesk; Cover by KatHuman Featured on reading list crafted by Community Curator: @KateLorraine

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After his parents get into a fight, Matthew's father takes him off to Nova Scotia to stay with his uncle Alister. He now has to deal with a new school, being separated from his brother, and a culture vastly different from the one back in Ottawa. But it's not all bad. Matthew has been captivated by the atlantic ocean and the Scottish folklore that comes with it. Particularly the Selkies. Because Matthew Williams has found a selkie of his own.

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Moira knows there has to be a reason why she was forced to leave Ireland after her father's drowning, and the secrets her mother keeps aren't calming her curiosity and desire to learn the truth. Her only link to the past is her best friend, Cillian, and even he has grown quiet as Moira's eighteenth birthday approaches. But when Cillian finally agrees to take her back to Ireland, and Moira sees the fierce waves and the seals that watch her from the rocks, the stories hidden from her suddenly begin to make sense. Her family has been feuding with the selkies, the seal people that surround the village, for years, causing the numerous drownings that lead her mother to fear the water so much. Moira can end the issue - she's supposed to marry a selkie prince once she's eighteen, forever tying her people with the seals. Moira has only just discovered the life hidden from her, and going to live with the seals would mean giving up the life she's always wanted to live. She doesn't want to give herself up to the sea. It will have to come for her.

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Selkie

Shara's mother has always told her to hide from humans, to never let them know that she is a selkie--a seal who becomes human when they remove their skin. She obeyed, even when her mother was taken away and left her alone. Now, she has no choice.