• Mermaid

    - a female marine creature, having the head, torso, and arms of a woman and the tail of a fish.


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    People say that if one drinks the blood of a mermaid, a legendary being which is said to be a mix between a woman and a fish, one would obtain immortality and live forever.

    She had always been so frail and sick.

    While other children had been outside playing games together, she had watched from her bedroom window in envy, sorrow and with a sting of pain. Why couldn't she be healthy and out there, running and laughing, singing and hiding.

    Instead, all her life she had been confined to a bland and white bedroom with simple toys and no one to play with.

    And now, it was too late for her to play hopscotch or jump rope, too late for games of tag and hide and seek.

    For she was dying, and all she had was her fairy-tale books which she had read from cover to cover, again and again.

    She had repeatedly cursed the world for making her so frail and sick and young and then taking any resemblance of a future away from her.

    And so, on one of her last days in life, she had grabbed the fishes in the aquarium in her bedroom, one by one, and sunk her teeth into each and every one of them.

    For people say that if one drinks the blood of a mermaid, a legendary being which is said to be a mix between a woman and a fish, one would obtain immortality and live forever.