These short stories and poems inspired by the sea are out of this world. 'Morgan the Masquerader' is set on an alien planet, 'Dinner Date' has some strange guests. Who Val loves in 'There Are No Sharks, So Far As I Know, In Lake Baikal' is completely unclear and clearly open to question.The interspersed poems expound upon the lives and alieness of sea creatures in a world quite as stange as any we might find in outer space.