Mercouple by Mimi Silverstein
Category Archives: June
Riparian
““Being a mermaid is for everyone,” she’d replied, over and over again, always trying to sound calm, always trying to sound like the reasonable, rational one, and not like this was what she wanted more than anything.”
by Seanan McGuire
Dissolution
“I come out of the coral,
the swaying forest of sea grass,
seeking seduction, my husband.”
by David Mohan
Hippocampus Zosterae
“we look to the jellyfish for advice.
how do you love a person you can see through
how do you bury dark truths in a belly
full of starlight?”
by Devin Miller
our translucent bodies
“we look to the jellyfish for advice.
how do you love a person you can see through
how do you bury dark truths in a belly
full of starlight?”
by Devin Miller
Mergays
Mergays by Elizabeth Burch-Hudson
Gull
Gull by inkshark
Life as a Twenty-Something Mermaid in Vancouver
“Look, it wasn’t like Kalani had planned on becoming one of those sewer mermaids. But she couldn’t just live with her parents forever, and by the time she moved out, the prices of lake-view properties had positively sea-rocketed.”
by Emily Deibert
3 Mers on a Rock
3 Mers on a Rock by Kala Tye
Un/Reliable: Reflections in The Drowning Girl
“I knew I was “crazy” before I knew I was queer. Growing up in the 80s and 90s in the United States (and elsewhere, so many elsewheres), it was easier to know that hearing voices was wrong, while kissing girls was not wrong.”
by Jordan Kurella
mermaids monthly 