<blockquote>Wakulla Springs, in the Florida panhandle, is the deepest submerged freshwater cave system in the world. “Wakulla Springs” is a novella by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages, which we hope will surprise and delight you as much as it surprised and delighted us.</blockquote>
➤ Very good as historical fiction, but the final paragraph of the story that seems to be making it something sff just felt entirely out of place and also not well foreshadowed or anything.
➤ And anyways the first two parts of the story felt so fully realized and interesting and complicated, and then the latter two were so insubstantial and almost pointless-feeling coming after the first two parts. They didn't feel like they actually CONCLUDED the story that was begun in the first two parts.
➤ I suppose that sff ending paragraph might be about the minor running theme of believing things? But that theme was NOT important enough to be anything like a strong note to end on.
➤ At any rate - super definitely totally worth reading for the first two sections, which come to around ~28k of the total ~34k of the story as a whole. And the final two sections do have some good stuff too, they're just a lot less interesting or immersive.
