Squid Games!

This is your classic coming-of-age story, with a relatable adolescent protagonist.  Cael is your average young sequential hermaphrodite from Jupiter's moon, Europa.  A smart, snarky cephalopod from one of the deep subsurface oceans, he’s just coming to terms with his transition from female.  In addition, he butts heads with his clan’s Matriarch, who wants him to have a respectable career in law.  But Cael is full of vigor and salt and decides to leave his home behind to seek adventure elsewhere!

Cael abandons his home for a journey beyond his imagination.  From the brine-pools of the high icy caverns to the deepest scorching vents of the rock-places, Cael will find out that the borders of his world lie far past the coral fields and ice sheets he knows.  And despite the claims of the Truth-Keepers, he believes that the world may not be surrounded by endless ice.  Can Cael brave the journey to the darkest, iciest heights?  Will the truth warm an icy heart, or freeze one’s arms in horror?  Find out, in… Squid Games!

By: Michelle Diebold