Across The Way

The dark tale of a mermaid trapped in an aquarium and treated like an animal. (Warnings Inside)

Neve remembered her time in the ocean vaguely, like a faded dream. She recalled that the water tasted different, more full of life and promise, and remembered the feel of being surrounded by her own kind, parents and siblings crowding close to keep warm at night, and then a net and air and too much sunlight and men speaking a language she didn’t know. She remembered being a frightened child when she came to her warm tank and the humans staring at her through the glass...