If Salt Lose Its Savor, by Christopher Caldwell

[Uncanny]

★★★☆☆

(African High Fantasy) Dion’s village makes it’s living selling special blue salts to magicians, and she is one of the best harvesters. But she has prophetic dreams, and lately she’s dreaming of a catastrophe. (2,518 words; Time: 08m)

Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan, by Christopher Caldwell

[Uncanny]

★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention

(Historical Fantasy) The carpenter on a Nantucket whaler hears a dreadful warning from an African god his ancestors once called upon when they were taken into slavery. But will anyone listen to him? (5,655 words; Time: 18m)

Hide Me in the Shadow of Your Wings, by Christopher Caldwell

[Strange Horizons]

★★★☆☆ Average

(Historical Fantasy) In early 19th-Century New Orleans, a teenage boy learns he can fly, but doesn’t understand why he must keep it a secret. (4,694 words; Time: 15m)