eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics (Dec 2017)
Island
Abstract
A short story of rape: "I push but there’s no push in me — my heavy limbs fall onto the sand. Conches wedge into my spine like new vertebrae. ‘Calcify,’ the crabs whisper. ‘Become crustacean! Scurry into the ocean.’ Or, ‘Sew legs shut with the discarded nets. Become a mermaid with nothing downthere!’"