Surfacing

A mother's legacy, a daughter's destiny

I am a creature of the deep, a mermaid, trapped on land because my daughter has yet to have her salt-birth and claim her siren heritage. The only mermaid to have known all five stages of grief. I am a single mother, without a job, who needs to support my human child. And ignore the ever-increasing call of the ocean's Salt.

Surfacing tells the story of the final phase of Mira's return to Saltford, as she strives to navigate human society, and finds a car...