Posts tagged "mermaids"
The Invention of Familiars

The Invention of Familiars

Some things we don’t care to talk about by name. It’s an old problem and one of its consequences has been fiction. Another popular solution is to fill in the gap with an animal. The monks of the middle ages, denying themselves everything a body wants, or lying about it, were the great theologians of...
Rusalki

Rusalki

The sprinkler whispers as the water crawls up, arches its back, and then drops to the dark grass. My sister Kat and I keep our toes on the wet line, giggling when the cold beads crash our feet. The water doesn’t know what the grandmothers told us: Any day now, my sister and I can...