"Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

The quote comes from the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.I was talking to Stephan last night about some story ideas I had, including one about a man who had some mer-folk blood on his mother's side, and how this might manifest itself in a man who was mostly human appearing, with legs rather than a fish tail.He was skeptical that a human and a mermaid/merman could even reproduce and proceeded to query me on the anatomical details and mechanics of such reproduction. How would a mermaid reproduce? Would she lay eggs?"But that's not what I want to write about," I replied.Sure, if I was going to get into a novel that dealt with this I might need to decide how my versions of mer-folk reproduced (eggs, live birth, or whatever). I've already done this with my dryads. But that's beside the point. If I'm writing about mer-folk, I'm already dealing with one impossibility. If I wasn't, it would not be fantasy. When your premise is impossible to begin with, what are a few other impossible things? First, I have to coax you to suspend disbelief. Then, if the rules I set seem consistent, I can make you believe those six impossible things before breakfast, at least within the boundaries of the story.I've had breakfast, and now I'm off to write about impossible things.