THE SEAMAN
Illustrated by Christopher Denise
Philomel 1997
ISBN# 0-399-22939-6 hardcover

A short historical fantasy chapter book that takes place off the coast of Holland in the seventeenth century. The crew in a boat in the Dutch navy pick up what they think is a drowning man. But when they get him into their boat, they see they have a merman, with a fish tail. The sailors are afraid and want to sell the merman to a fair or to the professors at the university. The young lieutenant and the cabin boy rescue him and eventually manage to throw him back into the water where his wife and child await. Based on a short story I wrote that was first published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine March 1989.

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