A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.
A sea turtle, who was hatched in 1959, spends the next fifty years travelling the world, while it is being changed by "global warming".
Two widowed people fall in love and marry, unprepared for the hostile reactions of their children.
The brothers, a couple of ne'er-do-wells, turn a sleepy mining town upside-down in their search for quick riches.
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various political intrigues.