Broken Paradise — Eugen Bacon

Shirley Jackson Awards, Shortlist

BSFA Awards for Best Shorter Fiction, Shortlist

Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans, Shortlist

After falling out with her brothers, Samaki the goddess of water flees to Earth where she must mask her trace by splitting into a quadruplet of magi.

A quadruplet is perfect, but all things are never equal. Dissonance arises when the magus Umozi breaks the quadruplet.

Only the newness of a child magus can restore balance and save a broken paradise-with the help of a goddess mother. 

A dark fantasy of gods, magic and family-what happens when they break.

After falling out...