“Blood was falling out of the boy as fast as the ocean could drink it in. That’s why I came and I won’t pretend otherwise.”
by Sarah Gailey
Tag Archives: Short Story
Water Bites Back
“Only a fool tests the depth of the water by stepping in with both feet.”
by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Selkie’s Bones
“When it rains here, it’s like sky and ocean have traded places, and we live in an inverted world. ”
by Marisca Pichette
Mermaids of Alabama: An Environmental Assessment
“The Alabama Mermaid Conservatorship Association (AMCA) seeks permission and funding to further local creek reclamation by removing two dams that were damaged by flooding, along Little Tallaseehatchee Creek, located outside Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama. This project has the ultimate goal of restoring the conditions of the Alabama mermaid habitat.”
By Ellie Campbell
A Stone’s Throw from You
“The day I told you I was leaving, you clutched a river stone in your tiny hand and threatened to throw it at my head. I knew you wouldn’t. You loved that stone. ”
by Jenn Reese
Send Feet Pics
“Her dating profile says she is a mermaid and she is merely 9 km away from me.”
by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas
wildgirls
“We had long since dropped any formalities between us; as Nereids, we were sisters even if she had married a mortal.”
by E. Catherine Tobler
Mami – Wata
“There had been another sighting of a mami-wata, mermaid to you and me, somewhere in the Cross Rivers State. The social media sites were going crazy with purported eyewitness accounts of a half-woman, half-fish being seen sitting on a rock by the creeks. Some even suggested there was a YouTube video.”
by Tony Ogunlowo
Mystery of the Deep
“The goddess smelled of salt water and fresh fish. She stopped in front of me and smiled.”
by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station
“Riles Yalten has approximately thirty minutes before she dies, and that’s just enough time to try the new gravlax place on level sixteen.”
by Ann LeBlanc
