The Books Oracle
by Cassandra Khaw
After her daughters devour a kingdom and burn it to ash, a sharp-toothed mermaid flees with a mysterious plague doctor into a landscape of body horror and dark fairy tale logic. This visceral novella rewrites the mermaid myth as a story of teeth, not wishes—where maternal rage and queer partnership carve through flesh and fable alike. Khaw's prose is lush, violent, and unapologetically strange.
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