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description: Excerpt:She took two more steps and pausedsqueezed her eyes tightly shut and listened. The gullsthe wateryet there was something else. She listened harderconcentrating on the unfamiliar sound.Instantly her eyes popped open as she half expected to see a lingering mermaid on the sand gasping for breath. Gaspingcoughing! That was the unfamiliar sound.Ember gasped herself as she looked forward up the shore to see a man struggling in the water. He was coughingspitting water from his mouth as he crawled from the water and onto the sand. As he collapsed face-down on the shore Ember lifted her skirt and ran toward the man dropping to her knees beside him.Sir? she cried nudging one broad shoulder. The man was stripped of his shirtdressed only in a pair of trousersno shoesEmber shook her head rolling her eyes at her own foolishness.Sir? she called again nudging his broad shoulder once more. The man lay on his stomachhis face turned away from her. Are you dead sir? she asked. Placing a hand to his back she sighed with relief as she felt he yet breathed.Sir? she said clambering over the mans broad torso. Sir are you? Ember gasped as she looked to the mans facehalf buried in the sandThe man coughed. His eyes openedhis deep blue eyes so shaded by thick wet lashes that Ember wondered how it was he could see beyond them.Sir? Ember ventured.He coughed asking Where am I?On the seashore sir Ember answered.
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title: The Tide of the Mermaid Tears
publisher: Smashwords Edition