How Much is That Mermaid‪?‬

"weird, sharp, raw"
—CSE Cooney, two-times World Fantasy Award winner, author of the Saint Death series

"Totally original. Fabulous, in the real meaning of the word."
—Garry Kilworth, World Fantasy Award winner

Most fantasies don't escape people's mouths.

"Those three plump faces with their oh so appealing eyes prick tears out of hers. Their sale papers include warnings to remove the eyes if heating, because the glass in others has exploded. He calls them the Babes. Their hair is the pale halo, just when the sun takes over from dawn, of the third moult. They're practically children."

A new novelette by Aurealis Award winner and shortlistee for the World Fantasy and William L Crawford fantasy awards, Anna Tambour.