Erika Swyler
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From Erika Swyler, author of The Book of Speculation-one of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction Books of 2015-- a short story of a mermaid who ran away from the circus, and what happened when she started a life on land.
Before she was a suburban wife and mother, Paulina Watson was the Mermaid Girl of Carnival Lareille. She traveled everywhere with two boxes: the first with red sequins for the dress she wore as a magician's assistant, the second with green sequins...