“What's the big idea?”
Tom Thumb* #quote
A mathematician may tell you it takes n+1 licks to get to the center
of a tootsie-pop. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Big Mermaid
A mermaid by the name of Shelly was born just like any other but
soon grew much larger. Rapidly and rapidly she grew, first to the
size of a whale. Whales were normal things for the sea so even at
this point mermaid society didn't discriminate against her, but more
saw her as a novelty. Her life was happy.
However one day Shelly swam through a sea cave that'd she swam
through a year before but bumped it so that it caved in behind her.
She didn't think much of this. The cave possessed a tunnel that went
out to another side. But when she reached it she couldn't fit through
the exit. She'd grown in the last year and couldn't get out. The
growth spurts of youth trapped the big mermaid, the much wider
fish-half of her body getting stuck every time.
So that's where the big mermaid lived. While smaller mermaids may go
on adventures, only after a few years of childhood the big mermaid
poked her upper body out of the cave and grabbed food as it passed.
She started to use her tail as bait, putting the very tip out and
slightly wiggling it to give the appearance of a small fish. Her
friends came by, but since she could only engage in conversation and
not swim around the ocean like most mermaids they dwindled to only
very close ones.
But with close friends and a calm life came some things that the
exciting adventures of smaller mermaids don't have. Peace.
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