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My novel, The Pisces, is the story of a woman who moves to Venice Beach and falls in romantic obsession with a merman whose tail starts below the D. I wanted to explore love as a drug — the urge to annihilate oneself in euphoria — and nothing embodies that dichotomy like the relationship between human and siren. 

But the truth is, I’ve never been that into mermen. Ask me to choose a mythological creature and it’s Pegasus all the way: not to hook up with, just to hang out with. If I were to choose some mythological creatures with whom to have a non-platonic relationship, these would be my top six...