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Include a mermaid in your writing today.
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Since she had been a little girl, Sarah had dreamed of being a mermaid. After all, what little girl hadn't read the books and seen the movies and heard the stories of beautiful mermaids? The mermaids always had long flowing hair, shimmery tails, and beautifully colored seashells adorning their perfect bodies in just the right places. Every sailor longed to see a mermaid, diving gracefully and swimming smoothly through even the roughest of waters. For nearly all of her fifty years, Sarah imagined herself with her mermaid friends sitting on the rocks, singing and sunning.
But in reality, Sarah sat on the chaise by the pool, uncomfortable in a plain black bathing suit that couldn't hide her rolls and sagging body. The men looked at her in disgust. The bikini-clad women laughed at her, like some high school clique picking on the new girl.
A tanned and toned man approached her. "Sarah, are you ready for your first swimming lesson?"
Wanting to run in shame, Sarah hesitated. But as she looked at this man smiling at her, the inner mermaid emerged. Sarah stood and walked over to the pool. ::SPLASH::
She sunk to the bottom. She floundered, panicking. She fought to reach the surface. Breaking through, gasping for air, she heard applause. Were those cliques laughing at her, making fun of her?
As she wiped the chlorinated water from her eyes, she saw her instructor beaming at her. "Sarah, you have conquered your fear! You jumped right into that pool. You were scared, but you survived. I think that in time, you are going to become a great swimmer."
"No, I'm going to be a mermaid."
~ Faith
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