The Salt Hour

Every evening at the turn of the tide, the village of Morrowmouth loses one hour that no one can account for. Fisher's daughter Bryn keeps a ledger of the missing minutes -- until the sea returns a boy who drowned a decade ago, dry as bone and asking for his name back. To pay the salt its due, Bryn must trade the one hour she has never lost: the hour her mother walked into the water and did not come out. A quiet, briny fantasy about grief, debt, and the small mercies the ocean keeps.