14 Oct 2011
This week featured The Comfort Boy from Carlene Love Flores and Garden of Knight by Dana Rodgers. Recently, we cornered our fellow mermaids in the lagoon and got the story behind their stories.
11 Oct 2011
(Mermaid Note: If you haven’t already, please read The Comfort Boy (Part One) first.)
The plan. That’s what was crazy. This man’s plan to stay the weekend while observing her unnatural sleeping patterns and questioning her on why they were.
But what choice did she have? None.
“This first night, I suggest we set up wherever you’re most likely to fall asleep. Whether it’s your room or the couch or that recliner. Wherever, your choice.”
My choice, what a joke. But she had already condemned herself to participating at all cost.
“Okay, I guess Gram’s room. That’s where I keep my stuff.” Six months and she still couldn’t bring herself to claim the space as her own.
Alice followed closely behind, his proximity creeping her out a bit, as they walked the short hallway to the last door on the left, passing Alec and Andrew’s room on the way. Sanden swallowed her sadness at what had become of…
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10 Oct 2011
Sanden’s mother had just finished cleaning the house. With the room straightened, things looked odd and out of place. The large, clear vase that had been used as a deposit for stray coins or buttons or anything small enough to toss in until they found a better place for it was now empty. Sanden shrugged and plopped two artificial flowers and a handful of loosened dirt she had brought in from the backyard into the vase. Thinking better of it, she tucked the marble she was about to toss in with them into her pocket instead. She looked up and caught her mother frowning.
The silky, once white peonies, covered in a light shadow of dirt and yellowed by the sun, were the only things that looked right in the room at the moment. It was clear her mother was on a mission to wipe Gram’s memory clean from the house. Sanden stood nearby the junk vase and…
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