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    To The Sea
    To The Sea
    To The Sea
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    To The Sea

    By John Mack

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    "I forgot to ask you where you work."
    "I'm a mermaid."
    "A ... beggin' your pardon?"
    She laughed, fluttering her fingers over her mouth.
    "I'm an attraction here at the park. I dress up in a costume with a tail, and there's a big fish tank rigged so it looks as if I'm lying underwater, and people pay their dime to come look at me. I get a dollar a week and a place to live. It's not much to do, but it lets me daydream all day."
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    Featured as Daily Literature Deviations' Pick of the Day: "Highly polished, this is a complete and
    enjoyable short story. Excellent dialectic
    dialogue and pretty descriptions work together
    to create a realistic scene, which allows the
    storyline to work on a literal and metaphorical
    line. Beautiful fiction."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Mack
    Release dateJun 26, 2013
    ISBN9781301247790
    To The Sea
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    John Mack

    John Mack is a writer of dark fantasy fiction and poetry which readers have described as "like opening a vein". He lives a self-contained life in Brisbane, Australia.

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      To The Sea - John Mack

      To The Sea

      John Mack

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      The electric lights were still somewhat of a novelty, and some of the crowd stopped to ooh and ah as they came on in the summer twilight. Otis watched as the sodium haze lit up sideshow alley, then drifted away as the rest of the crowd did, drawn by the sound of hurdey-gurdeys and barkers, the smell of corndogs frying. His eyes rolled over the myriad distractions of the pier, and the surge of people washed around him, leaving him untouched.

      He couldn't

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