The village of Satabhaya in Odisha, East India, is regularly hit by tsunamis and cyclones and continues to vanish due to rising sea levels and land erosion. These changes have led to displacement and migration, making it a place of memory, longing, nostalgia and fiction. As such, it is often used for post-human or non-human climate fiction and speculation. Theories propose that it could be transformed into a sanctuary for wildlife, an underwater habitat, or, for cartographers, a perfect “horror vacui”.