Author summary "–In which a time-traveling fisherwoman is struggling to get home to her children, and keeps landing on the right shore, at the wrong time."

That was a 5* story for me!
"Fisherwoman Mika Sandrigal was lost at sea." is how it opens. We come to learn she is a mother entering timeslips from her boat trying to get back to her time and her children. Each time she leaves the timeslip she ends up on the same beach at different time. She barters for supplies with items from the sea from other time periods. She attempts to avoid detection from authorities but the "fisherwoman" is known and watched for by those that want info about the future.

I listened on a podcast by Podcastle. The narrator wasn't the best and it took me a bit to get my own bearings in the story, I kept restarting it. That is not completely unusual for me though.

The author said this about the story and it made me love it even more.
"I wrote this story during the first sleep deprived months after my second child was born. I had a note jotted in my idea file for years "kid in a time traveling boat?" but it didn't come together until I realized it was really about a mother and she didn't actually want to be traveling. I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not the mother in question. My mother is. She would have gone to the ends of the earth for us and this story was my way of working through the question, "she would do it, but could I?". Am I strong enough? Brave enough? Will I ever be any good at this? I don't know if I answered that yet but I know that this story made her cry so take that mom."

Visual: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/strange-waters/ (I personally found the warnings on that site for the story ridiculous. ymmv)
PodCastle: https://podcastle.org/2019/08/13/podcastle-587-strange-waters/ ( )