You know how you hear about something for the first time and then you hear about the same thing right after? That happened to me the other day. I had literally Just. Finished. reading about Mami Wata on a fabric art site, and my high…

You know how you hear about something for the first time and then you hear about the same thing right after? That happened to me the other day. I had literally Just. Finished. reading about Mami Wata on a fabric art site, and my high…
This is a sample from one of the mermayd stories in OTHER EARTH, OTHER STARS, my collection of science fiction short stories. I included the mermayd stories in it because my mermayds aren’t fantastical creatures; they’re another life form. In this excerpt from the beginning…