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Table of Contents
\nBreathing by Julie Cox
\nExtremiad by Nisi Shawl
\nHelios and Ceto by Pepper Espinoza
\nTo the Sea,To the Sea by Marie Carlson
\nWet Medium by Beryl Falls
\nA Requiem for Poseidon by S. C. Mitchell
\nSilk Skin by Elias A. St. James
\nHow Much Water, How Much Air by M.E. Comstock<\/p>\n

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from Extremiad<\/i> by Nisi Shawl:<\/p>\n

Almost without a ripple, a dark, round shape rose from the water, not a wingspan from where the gryphon sat. Cascades of water quickly dwindled to bright drops caught sparkling in the shape\u2019s sleek fur, like the stars surprised in the heavens when she flew above the day\u2019s blue dome. Eyes blinked in the round head, eyes as deep and dark as the mysteries beyond those stars.<\/p>\n

Neither moved for many long moments. Only a tiny breeze stirred, a breeze too insignificant to trouble the gryphon\u2019s feathers or her fur. Her nostrils flared as it carried to her the strange scent of the creature, which rang through her flesh like the summons to sleep, to dreams unencompassable in this, the waking world.
\nFor her part, the mermaid looked upon a glory greater than any she had ever sought. The flashing skins of fishes never glowed so, never put forth so fabulous a light. Amazed, she ceased her song, and basked in golden silence.<\/p>\n

But soon enough, she came back into her nature; that is, she wished to encompass what she found to be unfamiliar. And in the tongue of those who cry to one another across the changing depths of the sea, she asked the gryphon how she was to call her, and whether they two might tarry here a while, in happy consort.
\nThe gryphon understood not one word the mermaid spoke. Yet she knew the burden of her song, seeing in the sea creature\u2019s eyes the same wonder and longing that, hunting, she had ofttimes struck from her prey. She rose, stalking to a nearby boulder on foreclaws and hindfeet, and leapt its green-mossed sides, landing neatly poised on top. In the tongue of those whose keen eyes pierce the heavens, with gesture and stance, the gryphon proclaimed herself, thusly:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the Queen of Air and Brightness, ruler of all that I survey. From the moment of my fledging\u2013\u201d (she mantled her light-metalled wings) \u201c\u2013I have extended my domain, in height and breadth and depth, by my ceaseless circling, by soaring more effortlessly than my most inconsequential thought, by beating through contrarious and blunt-browed storms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough young and beautiful\u2013\u201d (she strutted two steps, reared and arched her proud-feathered neck) \u201c\u2013I am wise with experience. But never\u2013\u201d (sinking now into a tense and curiously humble crouch) \u201c\u2013never have I seen your match. Your darkness engulfs my gaze, your subtle movements fascinate me, your sublime scent fills my nostrils with unendurable poignancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot contain myself.\u201d (Her arms folding themselves tight across her breast) \u201cI cannot. I must\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n

The gryphon\u2019s powerful haunches thrust her into the air, and her magnificent wings spread to grip the sun-laden warmth. The mermaid watched in uncomprehending sorrow as her newfound love flew so high as to become lost in the dazzling heights. With aching eyes, the mermaid turned to traverse the lake, the first stage of her long journey home.<\/p>\n

In the center of the water, she surfaced for one last look. There was the beach where she had sung to the wondrous being, and there the high rock where that wonder had perched before its sudden, wounding departure.<\/p>\n

And there, above her, the bright arrow, falling, of her wonder\u2019s return.<\/p>\n

The gryphon dove, maddened by desire. Her sharp eyes had been trained all along on the water, easily tracing the mermaid\u2019s wake, allowing her to adjust her trajectory accordingly. Upon the mysterious creature\u2019s emergence, the gryphon uttered one short shriek of joy and plunged into the lake.<\/p>\n

What she intended, she knew not. The mid-flight couplings of her own kind, translated somehow to this strange, liquid medium? Perhaps. She nudged her powerful beak gently against the silken-smoothness of her obsession\u2019s fine-scaled side, luxuriating in that all-pervading, all-persuading aroma. And she came, by some sweet chance, to stroke her claws, tips retracted, up along the nerve-rich channel that split the mermaid\u2019s tail.<\/p>\n

Higher, higher\u2013like billowing lava, the heat of the gryphon\u2019s touch glided up along the mermaid\u2019s tail. A string of undersea volcanoes surged beneath her skin, activated by this searing probe. The mermaid hissed, and sank beneath the rippling waters. Again, and yet again, the blooming fire rose coursing up her channel, and brought in its train a moistness, a thickening, and a longing to tangle in sisterly embrace. Her patch, the anemone-like triangle whose inverted apex topped her channel, pulsed with excitement. Its short, plum-colored tentacles moved slowly, seeking mates.<\/p>\n

As the mermaid sank, the gryphon gave her own air-light bones leave to lift her back to the surface. The mermaid\u2019s narrowing groove had defeated her perplexed seekings. In great, shuddering gasps, the gryphon breathed the breath her desire had denied her. Her shining limbs stirred the lake, pulsing in time to her pounding heart.<\/p>\n

Hardly had the gryphon\u2019s laboring lungs subsided to their usual levels of effort when a submerged caress quickened them again. She lowered her head between her wet-feathered forelegs. The dark face swam up to her, the dark arms enwrapped her and pulled her down into an embrace of cunning delight. Drowning in the scent of the sea, the gryphon sank willingly, clasping her lower limbs around the mermaid\u2019s waist. She seated herself so that her sensitive belly, rowed with tender, pink-tipped nipples, rubbed against the satiny scales of her lover\u2019s stomach in a most satisfying manner. And beneath her wildly lashing tail, her taut slit fluttered open to receive a multitudinous touch, unlike anything she had ever imagined could exist.<\/p>\n

All was strange, and passing strange. The mermaid gripped the darling sky creature tightly, and felt with her patch an odd, closed channel, angled in rather than up. And she found but one, lone tentacle, thick, and far too long to mesh with her own. Still, she fondled it, and bent it round, pulling it, stroking it, till she felt the marvelous, tufted tip. And then, how lightly, with what exceedingly distinct gradations of pressure she inserted that tip into the tightest portion of her channel. Each delicate hair made its own separate impression on the thinly sheathed nerves embedded there.<\/p>\n

As the exquisite rush of stimuli whelmed through her, branching infinitely along the infinite corridors of her pleasure, the mermaid managed still, somehow, to maintain her contact with the sides of the gryphon\u2019s slit, and even to increase the rate of her palpations. The gryphon purred a deep, growling purr and kneaded instinctively the soft black breasts beneath her paws. And so discovered, in the mermaid\u2019s milk, the source and essence of that ambrosial odor.<\/p>\n

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