The Mermaid Hypothesis
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Read between August 8 - August 16, 2025
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Fish are not great conversationalists.
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Yes, well, if she left in two days—or three, or four—she’d get to know her a little more and then she’d never see her again. Was that really any better? Yes, her heart whispered. Ridiculous heart. It always won these arguments.
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Cindy Number Three said she didn’t think Mallory liked people—and seeing as how she herself was a person, she was leaving.
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Every language had a word for dragon, too, because ancient people found dinosaur fossils in eroding cliffs and didn’t know those bones were millions of years old, so they imagined giant winged lizards flew overhead unseen and nested in mountainside caves. It proved nothing.