Old mermaids, seaweed in their long gray locks, gossip on rocky shores, wavery siren songs floating on turquoise swells.

They tell stories of men who deceived them, of shipwrecks and salvation. No regrets for their vengeful deeds. Tenderness for the lovely boys they swam to shore. Those were the days!

Susan Ritz lives and writes in East Montpelier, Vermont. Her thriller, A Dream to Die For was published by She Writes Press in 2019.