Description: #Audio. #Essay. The Bathtub Mermaid muses about breathing and how it relates to reading, writing, and creativity. Excerpt: And breathing… breathing isn’t all the same. There’s meditative breathing, and contemplative sighing.

Description: #Audio. #Flash-Fic A woman ponders all the boxes in her attic. Excerpt: She’s no Pandora, unable to curb her curiosity and inadvertently setting a mass of horrors loose upon the world. Her boxes aren’t metaphors for the trials and tribulat...

Description: #Audio. #Halloween A collection of five short-short stories for the season. Read by the Bathtub Mermaid and Friends. Excerpt: I reach around him and grab the bottle from his far hand, then take a swig. “Not bad,” I said.

Description: #Audio. #ShortShort Nostalgia piece about a day of freedom in the seventies. Excerpt: The three of us went in different directions. Jeff went down the dirt road that led to the neighborhood tucked into the edge of the woods.

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic A little girl meets her dog at the pound. Excerpt: But something about this poor creature, primate head, exposed skull, cybernetic attachments as well as prosthetic limbs, reptilian (well,

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic Snapshots from a life lived near sand and water. Excerpt: A rare combination of undertow and rip-tide. A moment when she has her back to the waves because he’s got the camera out and pointed at her, and just this once,

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic Twenty years in the future, a diver is lost. Excerpt: In a recent paper Dr. Casey presented as biologist-in-residence at MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), she theorized that the increased toxicity of near-...

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic Finding love when you’re madness controls your power isn’t easy. Excerpt: On their third meeting, though, the moon had been high in the sky after the official festivities of the ball had ended,

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic A father and son have a long-overdue conversation. Excerpt: “Why didn’t you ever play music at home? Katie would have loved your music. You know she’s at Julliard now? And Mom… she kept that piano dusted and tuned for you...

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic A little girl spends some time using her imagination. Excerpt: Anisa peered through the cardboard tube expecting to see just the flesh of the orange, but her grandmother stroked her hair and reminded her,