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...

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...

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...

Josh Canavan has lived a quiet life on the tiny island of Swans Landing, keeping a secret no one else can ever know. But when a new girl arrives on the island, Josh begi...

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...

Sirens don’t fall in love with humans. For centuries it has been so… But Sirena is different. She lost her first love to sharks and a storm, cursing the islands that sto...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

Crocodiles, children and Cuddles the Shark. Bringing up children when your partner works away is a hard thing for humans, but harder still for mermaids, when the commut...

Ovavi grew as a bully magnet because unlike most merfolks,she didnt have a tail, but she choose to be optimistic. She hopes to be as her powerful idol,the legendary kur...

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...

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...

Forsaken by the gods, their lives and homes taken by the flood, the humans left are slaves to the sirens. They pray for heroes, the twins Thunder and Lightning, to save...

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...

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...

Three mermaids, a psychopath, a vagabond witch, an exiled vampire and an ancient love from the past about to wreak havoc in the present. Kat spends her nights swimming i...

Sarah Williams is a well-known marine biologist who was rescued by a merman when she was a child. Jareth is the Finfolk-born king of the Merfolk who rescued her. This is...