Sea Glass and Salty Secrets

Emma’s new home is next to a very strange beach

Svetlana Smith
Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!
9 min readDec 12, 2021

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Photo by natsuki on Unsplash

We were told those tales before I was old enough to really know what they meant.

‘There’s creatures under that sand.’

We’d imagine mermaids in caves beneath us, wrapped in seaweed cloaks with crowns made of pearls and sapphires.

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Svetlana Smith
Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!

Editor of The Crystal Palace. Writes short stories, mostly about relationships — between friends, siblings, lovers — but with the odd folk horror for fun.