The Bathtub Mermaid

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TBM-2512.24 – Dog Days of Advent: Midnight

December 24, 2025 • 7 mins

Jean—called Grandma Love by strangers more often than family—felt that familiar tilt in the air. The almost-midnight tilt. Midnight wasn’t a time so much as a mood, a soft doorway between one thing and the next. She’d always been good with doorways.

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TBM-2512.23 – Dog Days of Advent: Sled

December 23, 2025 • 5 mins

She set the sled down. Ran her glove over the wooden slats. Felt her heartbeat double-tap behind her ribs. Then she climbed on. The world tipped. Not dangerously. Not wrong. Just… sideways enough.

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TBM-2512.23 – Dog Days of Advent: Gift and Train

December 23, 2025 • 9 mins

It was finished. Actually finished. She and Trisha had built it with their own four hands, two questionable YouTube tutorials, and one bottle of wine.

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TBM-2512.22 – Dog Days of Advent: Ritual, Thread, and Magic

December 22, 2025 • 14 mins

Across the Coalition of Aligned Worlds, she could imagine this same carol rising in a hundred places at once: sung in English, Centauran Creole, SolCommon, Vulhari, SynthCant. Sung in domed colonies, hydroponic farm chapels, mining outpost rec halls, starship sanctuaries. Sung by people who had never stepped on Earth, yet carried its stories like inherited starlight.

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TBM-2512.17 – Dog Days of Advent: Candle

December 17, 2025 • 6 mins

No one there was particularly observant. A few weren’t Jewish at all. But Hanukkah had a way of widening the doorway. Light was light, after all, and the station nights were long.

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TBM-2512.16 – Dog Days of Advent: Icicle

December 16, 2025 • 5 mins

She snorted. “‘Cause of death: holiday décor.’” “‘Victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but was at least festively themed.’”

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TBM-2512.15 – Dog Days of Advent: Flare

December 15, 2025 • 4 mins

“Daniel,” Jenna said, voice dangerously calm, “we live in Florida.” He looked at the wreath again. “…Right. So it might’ve been sand.”

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TBM-2512.14 – Dog Days of Advent: Harbor

December 14, 2025 • 4 mins

That was his favorite part of the holidays—the way people found the book they needed by accident. Not the one they came in asking for, but the one that met them halfway.

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TBM-2512.13 – Dog Days of Advent: Storm

December 13, 2025 • 7 mins

“What’d you fly?” “Oh, whatever needed flying.” He gave a small shrug, as if the details were unimportant. “Cargo. Rescue. The odd emergency route on Christmas Eve.” “Christmas Eve?” the student holding the baby asked. “Like… weathering storms?” “Like whatever came through the air that night,” he said, eyes glinting.

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TBM-2512.12 – Dog Days of Advent: Bells

December 12, 2025 • 4 mins

She held still, afraid the smallest movement would break whatever spell she’d stumbled into.

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The Bathtub Mermaid

Episodes

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TBM-2512.23 – Dog Days of Advent: Gift and Train

TBM-2512.22 – Dog Days of Advent: Ritual, Thread, and Magic

TBM-2512.17 – Dog Days of Advent: Candle

TBM-2512.16 – Dog Days of Advent: Icicle

TBM-2512.15 – Dog Days of Advent: Flare

TBM-2512.14 – Dog Days of Advent: Harbor

TBM-2512.13 – Dog Days of Advent: Storm

TBM-2512.12 – Dog Days of Advent: Bells

Popular Podcasts

TBM-2512.24 – Dog Days of Advent: Midnight

TBM-2512.23 – Dog Days of Advent: Sled