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EvilpixieA — Speaking Aloud
Published: 2013-07-23 03:25:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 1381; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 0
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I caught a mermaid in a net under the docks when no one else was looking.She was small, fragile, and her ribs gaped in gills that fluttered uselessly in the open air.
A small necklace made of shells and a skirt of woven seaweed told me she wasn’t a dumb fish. Long, curved, nails told me of her last dinner still snagged between her soft flesh and the protruding claw. A checkerboard scar on the arch of her fins told me my net wasn’t the first she’d swum into.
Her mouth, open and round like a goldfish, told me nothing.
Huge black eyes, blind in the sunlight, flirted meaninglessly around the underside of the pier.
I told her I loved her. I told her she was beautiful. I told her I would take care of her and never let anyone hurt her ever again.
Scaly body smacked desperately against pebble laced sand.
And I told her I was sorry.