Published in the anthology Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales, edited by Paula Guran. Reprinted in Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold, edited by Paula Guran. Also reprinted in Lightspeed September 2018.

I wrote this story in exchange for a donation to benefit those hit by Hurricane Katrina.  At the time I was flat broke, but I could still barter my writing, although it took me some time to produce the story and even longer to find a home for it.  Right now (2014) I live in Baton Rouge.  The story draws from my childhood images of the Dragon King Under the Sea and his realm (Korean folklore) because at the time of writing I had never been to Louisiana, let alone New Orleans, so I thought I’d write of the sea the way I knew how.