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• The Heart Sings a Siren • poem by Ali Trotta
• A Nereid's Guide to the Underworld • short story by E. Catherine Tobler
•  Depths • interior artwork by Thomas Jones
• Mammiwata Bay • poem by David Ishaya Osu
• Only Circles in the Sea • short story by Carlie St. George
•  Only Circles in the Sea • interior artwork by Clare McCanna
• Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station • short story by Ann LeBlanc
• An elegy for voices Ariel traded for legs • poem by Agwam Kessington
•  Dream (comic poem) • interior artwork by Mila Nowak
• mermaid life • poem by Susmita Ramani
• Mystery of the Deep • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• more fat mermaids • poem by Linda M. Crate
• Waking Dream • poem by Kim Coleman Foote
• Honey and Vinegar and Seawater • poem by Keyan Bowes
•  They Will Try to Drain You • interior artwork by Valerie Herron
• The Sea King's Second Bride • (2010) • poem by C. S. E. Cooney
• Self portrait as ocean bed • poem by S. Rupsha Mitra
• Mami – Wata • short story by Tony Ogunlowo
•  Underwater Eclipse • interior artwork by Cito Wheelington
• Loving the Other: Hans Christian Andersen and the Evolution of Mermaid Romance in Western Media • essay by Carrie Sessarego
• What Mother Failed to Mention About Dating a Mer-Man • (2019) • poem by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
• I Want to Be Where the People Are: Disability and the Shape of Water • essay by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry [as by Elsa Sjunneson]
• I Am Not Your Tragedy • short fiction by Carlie St. George
•  I Am Not Your Tragedy • interior artwork by Clare McCanna
• Canto for a Mermaid • poem by William Heath