We are back with a touch of the supernatural. Growing up mermaids were meant to be feared, they were treacherous beings out to get you at any cost - careful not to get taken by a mermaid if you were down by the river. In Finding Mermaids, Chido Muchemwa tells a story of loss and grief mingled with a quest to find the truth about strange disappearances of girls in a remote village. Is this strange occurrence easily explained or is it driven by spirits from another world? We cannot know it all...

Find out more about Chido and her published stories on her website www.chidomuchemwa.com. And if you want more njuzu (mermaids), check out her story “The Captive River” published in Augur Issue 4.2.