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Maybe Mermaids And Robots Are Lonely: 40 Stories And A Novella, Matthew Fogarty
Maybe Mermaids And Robots Are Lonely: 40 Stories And A Novella, Matthew Fogarty
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Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely comprises 40 stories and a novella all set in or around Detroit and featuring figures that have become almost legendary in American culture. Stories in the collection range in form from a more traditional, if quirky, realism to a somewhat more ethereal or slipstream or magical realism. In the title story, for example, we meet a pair of star-crossed lovers, a robot and a mermaid, who must find a way to bridge their different worlds. "Rollo is Rollo" is a more realist play on the Cain and Abel, good brother-bad brother story. There's an …