Each day of the year in 2016, I will be attempting to write a short story, using a prompt. It'll be wild and hard and who knows? I might even turn out some good stuff. Maybe you'll even want to do this too. (Dedications go to followers.)
This is par...
56. Photograph: Write a story or journal entry influenced by a photograph.
The Day I Caught a Mermaid
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My name is Luke. Luke Deitrot.
And I guess I'm a good fisherman, because one day I caught a mermaid.
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Let's be clear: It didn't start out as a normal day, so I really don't know why I was so surprised when it just got wierder. Maybe it's because you think, after a certain amount of strange, you've hit your quota for the day. But no. Apparently there is no limit to how much oddness one day can handle.
Well, maybe there is, but I haven't seen it been reached yet.
Sometimes I wonder if fate meant to throw us together. I didn't think I believed in destiny, until I met her, but I didn't believe in a lot of things before Amatheia came along.
It couldn't have just been coincidence. There was too many strange things that happened. At the time, I knew the day was going a bit unusual, but it wasn't until it all happened that I began to examine the events in my mind and see how they connected.
Was it chance that made my alarm clock break in the night and fail to wake me up? Was it chance, what happened with me and Holly? Could it have been just coincidence for Dad to run late at the office and have me check the fish nets?
Amatheia believed in fate, that our lives are prewritten and directed by some goddess. She would think I was blasphemous to even entertain the idea that this wasn't so.
I don't buy it. I knew I had a decision. And if I had chosen no, if I had just never made that one stupid comment, none of this would have happened.
I would have never caught a mermaid on my sixteenth birthday.
But I did, and this is what happened next.
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A/N: So this is a story I've had in my head for a while, inspired by that picture. This is a sort of teaser to it. Hopefully one day I'll write it... Sorry it's short! I blame Kik. If you have a Kik, chat me up! My username is the same on here. :)
