Original Fiction rec

Singing Again at Seven Bells. Being the journal of Captain Annabel Blackwater, terror of the deep. A short and disproportionately delightful story of a mermaid and a female pirate captain, drenched in briny atmosphere. The style is great and idiosyncratic, without a word wasted, and the central relationship is creepy and beautiful and compelling. (This isn't the harmless kind of mermaid, but more of a siren.)

She planned to eat me, after all, when she first sang me out.

She told me so herself, tho - I confess - I knew it from the start.

We all have our indelicate desires.

The story is from Original Works Exchange. I haven't had a chance to read much, but there's a lot that looks good.
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