Joanne Harris 
Last Train to Dogtown/The Little Mermaid (Storycuts) [EPUB ebook] 

In 'Last Train to Dogtown’, Neil K. is a bestselling author, feted and acclaimed wherever he goes. Until the evening his train maroons him in the middle of nowhere, and after wandering into a bar, he is confronted by a group of characters who are all strangely familiar…In 'The Little Mermaid’, every Tuesday is reserved for Freak Day at the pool, when the disabled, the impaired and the elderly come to bathe without disturbing the able-bodied. Sad Flipper, so deformed and ungainly in her wheelchair, is as agile and graceful as a dolphin in the water. But will she be tempted to sacrifice her uniqueness for love?Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Jigs & Reels.