Joy developed an ability in her late teens and early 20’s that most women don’t have: she can read auras… and she can see ghosts. When she’s drunk or stoned. All the better if both. One night, after tying-one-on, Joy feels empathy for one ghost in particular: Ethel, a girl-ghostContinue Reading
Laura has been Joy’s more responsible roommate, as far a paying the bills go, being supportive, and occasionally bailing Joy out of jail. Laura is a contrarian, however, and even though she can post vids and balance finances with the best of them, she still prefers to dress herself andContinue Reading
Acara Blue Gourami (though hatched Gam Coleoid) struck Joy as being a teenager somewhere between an old seventeen year-old and a young nineteen year-old. Though Joy would admit that, for all she knew, all her Naiad Roommates might be 500 years old (and on some planet in another galaxy –Continue Reading
“Ethel’s Intro” appears in Temple of the Mermaid First Edition (available now) but will move to Laura Laura Phantasmagoria in the next edition. Ethel Cramden was seven years old; forever seven years old—frozen in time and character for eighty-eight years. Her spirit had a perch in the air, suspended aContinue Reading
Pootzalana Gourami is possibly the most beautiful Naiad in all of Temple Eleven’s First Floor. Scolymia, Acara, and Danio are certainly in the running – but this is a crude ranking from the point of view of 24-5’s many gentleman callers. In reality, Pootz is very skilled at stitching andContinue Reading
Danio is Gattie’s second in command in the 24-5 hierarchy. She is the same age as Gattie, and together they have endured a lot. Tall and strong, when the roller mechanisms in the walls or floor beak down, Danio is the go-to repair woman. Danio is also the team’s emotionalContinue Reading
Gattie Gourami is dwelling R24-5 First Floor’s Helical Energy Team Leader. At 27 she has been in the Roller Tunnels more than a few crossings too many. She is competitive, hardworking, and happy enough to either trade in contraband or just outwork all the other Naiads in her stack. Gourami-prettyContinue Reading
Cassie lives on Temple Eleven’s first floor, on the Dugong side, and shares the back tunnel with Gattie and her crew, Kirka and her crew, and others. Cassie is also Team Leader, but since “The Change” has come upon her, the relationship between her and her crew (three unnamed naiadContinue Reading
Ne, Queen DeBora Jean Fuglunta-Fazoot Of the twelve Temple Rulers across the entirety of Terra Aqua, Queen DeBora is the most personally murderous and despotic. Plenty of the current class of rulers will murder and order the deaths of this person or that, but DeBora holds the distinction of doingContinue Reading
Loach is Queen DeBora’s Executive Assistant. He is an old man, and has been kept on from the previous administration. His wealth of worldwide, oceanographic, and celestial knowledge makes him so indispensable, that even a murderous psychopath like the Queen has given up threatening his life. Three times daily heContinue Reading