Sympathy with the sea with the weird and with monsters fills the stories of Imperfect Commentaries Ruthanna Emryss collection offers readers fantastical feminist and ownvoices NeoLovecraftian fiction anthropological science fiction and fantasies of belonging plus miscellaneous deleted scenes poems and secret story origins Readers familiar with her novels Winter Tide and Deep Roots will see the first appearance Aphra Marsh an Innsmouth survivor still recovering from her losses and making a life for herself in late1940s San Francisco in The Litany of Earth