Breaking Waves

Fighting Oil with Ink: Thirty nationally-acclaimed, award-winning authors team up in Book View Cafe's brand new anthology, BREAKING WAVES. 100% of the proceeds from this one-of-a-kind collection of short stories of rescue will go to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Relief Fund. Contributing writers include Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, David D. Levine, Sarah Monette, Lyda Morehouse and more. Includes an eerily prescient chapter from Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us with its first inklings of the global warming catastrophe.Table of Contents:Introduction, Tiffany TrentIntroduction: Phyllis Irene RadfordIn England in the Fifties, Ursula K. Le GuinA Little Song, A Little Dance, David D. Levine and Andrine de la RochaA Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature, Vonda N. McIntyreSite 14, Laura Anne GilmanThe House That We Built, Dave Gessner and Bill RoorbachBlack Gold, Tiffany TrentAutumn Leaves, James SallisMy Mother’s People, Elaine IsaakThe Blue Curtain, Brenda CooperChristmas Count, David B. CoeEternal Return to the City of New Orleans, James SallisJavier Dying in the Land of Flowers, Deborah J. Ross, writing as Deborah WheelerOrigami Action Heroes of Singing River, Sandra McDonaldThe Power to Change the Shape of the Land, Dayle A. DermatisThe Girl Who Dreamed of the Sea, Judith TarrThe Sea Around Us, Rachel CarsonTerra Incognita, Camille AlexaSuicide Note, Mario MilosevicSerpent Singer, M.H. BonhamEmergency, Nancy Jane MoorePreparing for the Hurricane, James SallisAfter the Dragon, Sarah MonetteComet Summer, Jennifer StevensonBacktiming, Randy TatanoRescue Work, Pati NagleCandace, Judith TarrI Sing a Song of Mourning, Dayle A. DermatisGalveston, P. G. NagleIndigo Bunting, Lyda MorehouseParadise, Vonda N. McIntyrePhotographs: Carolyn McIntyreShark Attack, Sue LangeDisaster Relief, Kristine Kathryn RuschA Field Guide to Ugly Places, Patrick SamphireTroubled Water, Kelly Ramsdell Fineman