The Mermaid Girl by Erika SwylerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a lovely short story that's also the prequel to The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler. So you should read that first. You should read that anyway because it's good.
Here's one of my (many) favorite lines because it's real and common, and no less terrible because it's common:
He'd seen it in his friends. Frank and Leah were comfortable. They'd settled into lifelong friendship; like a limb you'd not known you were missing until it appeared. Reliable, essential, but not something you burned for. No one ached; he told himself it was good to ache.
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