Low Water

Year 12 of the Recession. The sea stands fifty-five meters below the old waterline, and it is still leaving. Two years after a small, deniable test proved that feeding the sea worked, the tribute has gone public: the Vestra Combine drowns the unclaimed in barges at its Reclamation Fields on the outer Shelf, and the whole Foreshore is voting on whether to make it law.

Sena Voss is hired to chart Field Nine, the newest field: twenty-two days of sounding work on a graveyard that is still being ...