This is a collection of stories. In the title story, a mermaid and a robot make for unlikely lovers and are forced to overcome their innate differences: that she needs water to live but water would be the death of him. But love finds a way.

Folktale,Romance,Children's,Fantasy

The mermaid emerges from the ocean ans explores an unnamed city. She and the robot see each other from separate rooftops.

Various

No

Internal Journey/Rebirth,Voyage and Return

Happy Ending

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Name: Mermaid

Age: NA

Gender: Female

Role: Emotional

Key Traits: Charming,Complex,Sophisticated,Seductive,Romantic,Visionary,Funny,Selfless,Sexy

Name: Robot

Age: NA

Gender: Other

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Adventurous,Aspiring,Charming,Clumsy,Complex,Underdog,Power Hungry,Romantic,Visionary,Heroic,Engaging

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Matthew Fogarty is the author of Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely (George Mason University’s Stillhouse Press, 2016), which Kirkus named one of the best books of 2016. The title story recently won a Pushcart Prize. He has an MFA from the University of South Carolina, where he was editor of Yemassee. His fiction has appeared in such journals as Passages North, Fourteen Hills, PANK, Smokelong Quarterly, and Midwestern Gothic. He can be found online at www.matthewfogarty.com and on Twitter at @thatmattfogarty.

Age: 6 and under,7-12,13-17,18-34,35-54

Target Gender: Female Leaning,Male Leaning,Universal

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Status: Yes: with a Publisher

Publisher: Stillhouse Press

Year Published: 2016

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978-0990516941