The Mermaid Girl (Kindle Single): A Story

This is a lovely short story that's also the prequel to The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler. So you should read that first. You should read that anyway because it's good. Here's one of my (many) favorite lines because it's real and common, and no less terrible because it's common: "He'd seen it in his friends. Frank and Leah were comfortable. They'd settled into lifelong friendship; like a limb you'd not known you were missing until it appea...read more