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A different take on the mermaid story

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Little Merman
michaelchsiung

Standing at the gallows arielis did not know why he was sentenced to death with his voice gone he could not beg or scream just stand on the crate he was placed a warm stream of tears following a long trek from the corner of his eye to the ground dripping off of his chin. This all started because he sought out love, his price was gone leaving the city quickly after his suiter myself had proclaimed my love for him. What was I thinking I had just met him after saving his life and rejected and dejected and waiting to die.

It all began when myself and a small group of mer-people were out sinking ships and pulling sailors to their death, so shortly after we pulled the ship into the rocks the men began to fall at first I was enjoying myself grabbing 5’ tall man and pulling him lower and lower. His hands swinging wildly attempting to break my grasp when he got my face. Breaking his neck I tied one of the weights I was carrying to his throat so his body sank to the floor. It was when I grabbed my third sailor, pulled him near a food down with one motion his face level to mine I saw pure beauty in his emerald green eyes and had to save him.

The drums begin to beat quickly and the man to my far left on the gallows bench is let drop his body pulling at the thin chords that bring blood and air to his body followed by a resounding snap telling the crown he was dead and a cheer roars from the bloodthirsty humans laughing at the death of their own people.

It is my turn to speak my final words, in my final moments my throat clears like a tentacle is being taken from round my vocal chords and I tell the square” hear me people, with the snapping of my neck will come the crackling of thunder and the strike of lightning my father will not stand for the murder without reason execution with no crime. Where I come from love is no crime passion is to be pursued with freedom and we don’t kill our own. I love this man erick and I will not take back these feelings for no law or…..”

The man then fell his body changing as the rope tightened legs disappearing and being replaced by long fins and a tail the added weight breaks his neck and pulls his head off of his neck flinging the wet and bleeding thing into the crowd. There is silence, the people back away terrified they had just killed the child of a god. The sky darkened with thick clouds thunder covered any trace of the sound of fleeing people and the crack of lightning began to light wooden buildings and carts ablaze with the red hot fury of an evening deity…..

-this is my attempt to reconstruct the disney classic the little mermaid by changing the mc to a gay male and the reaction of the people would be much different from that of hetero-normative reaction to love.

The proclamation of these feelings I think would have probably sealed his fate and changing him from a male to a female would I think change his father's reaction to his decision because males generally get more slack if they do what they have passions for

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