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    At the Water's Edge

    By Shelley Chappell

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    A fantasy short story for young adult and adult readers. The tale of a mermaid drawn to the boundary where two worlds meet.

    "If I wait until the tide is nearly in, I can cling to the rocks and let the salty weight of the water push me onto the surface. I like it when it rains and the rocks are slippery wet. I like the light drizzles, when the water is mostly mist against your face, and I like the hard downpours. They make me laugh and lift my hands up to the driving water, because I might as well be swimming, back down in the deeps."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShelley Chappell
    Release dateJun 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311057341
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    At the Water's Edge
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    Shelley Chappell

    Shelley Chappell is a writer of fantasy fiction and fairy tale retellings for children and young adults. She is the editor of Wish Upon a Southern Star (2017), a collection of radically retold fairy tales by twenty-one New Zealand and Australian authors, and the author of Beyond the Briar: A Collection of Romantic Fairy Tales (2014) (nominated for a Sir Julius Vogel Award) and a variety of short stories. She is a member of the Christchurch Writers’ Guild, a supportive community fostering connections between writers and promoting writing in Canterbury and New Zealand, and SpecFicNZ, the New Zealand association for creators, writers and editors of fantasy and science fiction.Shelley wrote a doctoral thesis on fantastic metamorphosis in children’s and young adult fantasy literature, titled Werewolves, wings, and other weird transformations. Her academic work includes articles on fantasy motifs as metaphors and werewolves as a metaphor for racial difference.To find out more about Shelley and her writing, read her stories, visit her website, www.shelleychappell.com, or make a connection with Shelley by following her posts on Facebook, Goodreads, or Pinterest.

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