This Ocean Was A City Once - Ebook (Short Story)

🏆 Winner - First Place, Conflux 2025 Short Story Competition

🏆Finalist - Aurealis Awards 2025 - Young Adult Short Story

A flooded planet. A decade-long wait for justice. One daughter's desperate choice.

Naia's world is disappearing beneath the waves, one storm at a time.

On Moon's End, she and her family cling to the top floors of a drowned skyscraper, waiting for the payout that will change everything. For ten years, they've survived on determination, vegetable plots, and hope that Wenstron Dynamics will finally pay for flooding their planet.

But hope doesn't hold back hurricanes. And corporations are experts at delay.

When the trader ship stops coming, and the lawyers announce another year-long extension, Naia faces an impossible choice: stay loyal to her mother's dream of rebuilding their world, or save her family before they become another statistic in a corporate lawsuit that outlasts the people it destroys.