Aimee Bender is the author of the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her work has been widely anthologized and has been translated into ten languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
A mermaid and an imp going to school together is a premise with some potential, but I wish there was more of a story. The imp was a painfully annoying character. The mermaid did nothing but get aroused at her hair being touched.