Finfolk Stories

Sixteen-year-old Mara Westray has just lost her mother, and now, being shipped off to live with the father she doesn’t know is not how she imagined grieving. She’s alrea...

Chapter one has been edited* A human teenager is warned by her grandmother for years to stay away from the ocean or one of the finmen will snatch her and make her their...

What if your whole life was just a lie? And what would you do if you found out the truth? For 16-year-old Aalton Coventina, he has always believed that somethi...

When a boy in his twenties deem fit for the offering to the once thought mythological creature for a misconduct he didn't commit. How's he supposed to run away from that...

Seven tears she must shed into the ocean; seven tides he must abide. Seven waves till they must return; seven faery darts to cause them to fade. Seven years they walked...

Esper Bagery knows what she is but she hasn't told her best friend yet. He would never believe her family is part seahorse-mermaid from the ocean. To test how he would r...

Kiera has a deadly dark secret -- she is the descendant of a Merrow -- an Irish mermaid. Given the enchanted sapphire ring of her ancestor, it is now her time to bear th...

[short story / 2nd place winner of Tales of the Deep's Mermay contest] On a tiny remote island, a Neolithic tomb sits forgotten on the hillside. It is the Museum of Vani...

Feuding dragons and sailing ships - pig-keeper Jan de Vlamingh can't resist the adventure of being a cabin boy on the Leeuwin as it chases a dragon across the ocean. Sw...

Crystal, a siren who is on a hunt of finding their mother's abuser, finds herself captured by the same monster she has been looking for. Just as she is about to lose ho...

Punished for a false crime, calypso gets drowned. But she wakes up as a creature not seen before one with bright amber eyes, and skin pale as the moon But what happens w...

This story will be about the life of both smith and orion they eventually meet but not in the best of ways. You see orion is a merman and was caught by the pirate smith...

A finfolk is a mermaid type creature which takes humans from the surface to have as their wives or husbands. These are the character sheets and when they're done, I'll g...

The moon moved. The Earth is dying. Humans struggle to survive. Well, some do. Some have a little help from the sea. Mythical creatures menace those who remain but the...

What happens when a human sees too much? Could you kill to protect your people? Capsize his boat… Lure him into the water… Summon sharks … How long will Sirena let J...

All the stories we heard as a child: monsters, evils, nightmares. We were told to not dwell on it. 'They aren't real', they would say. We grew up believing it. Thirteen...

Working as a student midwife in an Australian country hospital is never easy, but Belinda finds more trouble than most. There's the intern doctor who follows her around...

To death and duty! Vanessa returns to shore from the ocean's depths, hoping to help her people and perhaps the humans, too, if they prove worthy of her time. So she hops...

Celtic Merfolk, Water Spirits & Cryptids contains a fascination collection of oral, written and tradition stories that populate the rich cultural and folkloric heritage...