Hi everybody, this is my first post! On first brush I found this a pretty solid middle-of-the-pack story, I liked the reading if only cause I thought she sounded just a bit like a mermaid might. Thinking back on it there was a lot that was really great in this story, I loved the slightly more realistic imagining of mermaids--which managed to seem realistic but stay fantastic and mysterious. Perhaps the story was a little boring, not very much happened, but he poetry in the writing made the story for me, "shark skin smooth, shark tooth sharp" and such. It just sounded right, the way a creature vaguely similar to us, but from a different world might think.