La Signora | Tor.com
“La Signora,” by Bruce McAllister, is a dark fantasy about a teenage American living in an ancient Italian fishing village with his parents. He’s invited by his friends to go night-fishing on one special night, and although he knows his parents would disapprove, he goes anyway. This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by consulting editor Ellen Datlow. I do not think they will sing to me. —T. S. Eliot As a boy of thirteen, bookish but very American, I lived for two years in an ancient fishing village on the Ligurian Sea, a village of myths and superstitions that had ...