Thank you so much for your reading and feedback... in my larger works that I am moving toward publication, I write historical fiction and also science fiction handling current events, and I am ferociously anti-racist and pro-redemption everywhere ... so in this case, I tried to think of what the world would look like if sea levels did rise over the litter-mad and racist-resurging United States that I know about today -- if it started tomorrow, and then add 150 years to it.
Thank you for the read, and for the honor of the award!