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#audio #memorial #flashfic #flashfiction #nichellenichols #spacesirens

Excerpt:

Every so often, there is a mortal being inducted into the siren’s sisterhood. Our linear, finite lifetimes necessitate that this happens only when such a person has finished her last song. When that happens, the sirens come to guide her past their mother-heart to a place where time has no meaning.

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• The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the Auphonic iPhone app and Audacity.
• Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
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• Song Credit for this piece: “Beyond Antares,” by Wilbur Hatch and Gene L. Coon, performed by Nichelle Nichols

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