Take Your Daughters to Work

"Take Your Daughters to Work" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Livia Llewellyn. It was first published in issue #6 of the Subterranean Press magazine Subterranean in January 2007 Title: "Take Your Daughters to Work" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
The New Y'ha-nthlei Steelworks is an industrial facility dedicated to raising submerged city from beneath the depths, one piece at a time, for reassembly on land. On the company's take your daughter to work day, the staff send their female offspring who are of age into the deep water to be used as breeding vessels for their aquatic compatriots.
==Behind the Mythos==
The New Y'ha-nthlei Steelworks would appear to be attempting to rebuild the sunken city of Y'ha-nthlei, which was attacked and damaged - but not destroyed - during the events recounted in The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Why an aquatic species such as the Deep Ones would wish to have Y'ha-nthlei rebuilt on land is not explained.
In the story, the girls sent beneath the waves are attached to chains and hauled back out later, their corpses used as hosts for the parasitic offspring of whatever lurks at the site of old Y'ha-nthlei; this would suggest that whatever is using them as breeding vessels is something other than Deep Ones.
==Publication History ==
*Subterranean #6 (2007, Subterranean Press)
*Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors (2011, Lethe Press)
*The Book of Cthulhu II (2011, 2022, Night Shade Books)
==References==
Category:Livia Llewellyn works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works