Between Fish and Flesh

The fleshfish industry continues its steady, perpetual growth. The depleting mermaid numbers serves only to push prices higher and higher, and the youth-giving properties of fleshfish means those who can afford it are willing to pay for it. But Tom Swasey, the CEO of the food company Purh, has a problem: Without a male, the industry has no way of reversing the threat of extinction. The industry is steadily destroying itself. Worse still, there have been no confirmed sightings of a male. But Tom is willing to do whatever it takes to get one.

However, there are those who want an end to the fleshfish industry; of the torture and abuse that comes with it; and activists work to bring the industry down.

Tom's wife, Pallas, is a youthful ninety-year-old holding shares in many profitable industries. She is a powerful, ruthless woman, but when she accidentally witnesses the torture of two mermaids at the hands of the abattoir staff, something unlocks in her psyche, and she finds herself questioning her allegiances.

Between Fish and Flesh is a dark tale set in the extreme heat of a dying, synehitopian world where corporations cling to profit and market dominance, and humanity steadily loses it's mind. An occasionally violent novel, containing torture and abuse.