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"Side image of the ocean and a fin. all in blues and purples
The mermaid isn’t always there, but she’s there a lot. Cassie wonders where her home is. If mermaids have homes, if they have families. If they have ex-fiancés who treated them like malfunctioning equipment. If they have whole lives’ worth of infrastructure that can be left behind at the drop of a hat, if they can make that decision based on nothing more substantive than an automatic text message from a three-hundred-billion-dollar conglomerate.
Mary Berman,
“Cassandra Takes the Plunge”
Trollbreath Magazine Issue One, September 2024"