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• Introduction: Waves • essay by Paula Guran
• Swell • (2009) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• Driftglass • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• The Sea Change • (1995) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• Miss Carstairs and the Merman • (1989) • novelette by Delia Sherman
• Sea-Hearts • (2009) • novella by Margo Lanagan
• The Drowned Mermaid • (2003) • short story by Christopher Barzak
• Abyssus Abyssum Invocat • (2013) • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Each to Each • (2014) • novelette by Seanan McGuire
• Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home • (2007) • short story by Sarah Monette
• Salt Wine • (2006) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean • short story by
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• Flotsam • (2006) • short story by Amanda Downum
• The Mermaids Singing Each to Each • (2009) • short story by Cat Rambo (variant of The Mermaids Singing, Each to Each)
• Rusalka • (2012) • short fiction by Anna Taborska
• The Mermaid Game • short fiction by Chris Howard
• The Nebraskan and the Nereid • (1985) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• A Good Husband • (2010) • short story by Angela Slatter
• Letters to a Body on the Cusp of Drowning • (2015) • short story by A. C. Wise
• The Corridors of the Sea • (1981) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Forever, Miss Tapekwa County • (2011) • short story by Lisa L. Hannett
• Urchins, While Swimming • (2006) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• Magritte's Secret Agent • (1981) • novelette by Tanith Lee