My seal skin is not my own anymore. It feels like a stranger is stealing it. It hurts me, it's pain and pleasure, it hurts so good. Make me human to your own desire. I plead to the sea, when will I become human like the one that I love? I don't like being a seal; I refuse to transform back into being a seal, you know that about me. Yet your silence is drowning me in the sea of uncertainty. Where do we go now? Am I a friend or am I your lover? What do you want from me? I don't like this feeling of uncertainty. I feel like I'm in a chokehold of your love or lack of it.
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Selkies, Gaelic Songs, and Highlander Mythology: Short Stories
FantasyHighlanders myths, and the songs by the people of Scotland and Ireland that they sing in Gaelic have inspired these short stories. I always use selkies as a way of speaking my truth. Selkies are humanoid creatures who can shapeshift between human a...
