Seadreams

I always wanted to be some sort of sea creature. A shrimp would do. They are really kind of cute. An oyster would br fine..a little more secure, though I've watched seagulls make short work of them. Most romantic, of course, would be a mermaid. My favorite mermaid tail, er , um tale, is rather contemporary. It actually is about a mermaid and a human female drawn together by the machinations of men...or it would appear that way. The woman's husband nad company "capture" the mermaid and have her on board a ship when all sorts or misadventures begin to happen including the mermaid escaping and eating one of the sailors. Then she loses her fins and becomes human and vulnerable to the revenge of the sailors who want to do what sailors do to women and she is rescued by the human female. About this time a storm breaks lose, the ship founders and the mermaid transforms once more into a sea monster. She is a Circe feeding all her mermaid children chunks of tasty sailors until the only living thing is the woman who will find herself pregnant with a strange child after this adventure, but that will be another story.

a little macabre to like such a bloody story, but I liked the vengeful fish woman who had mercy on her human sister. I liked her beauty and her strength. Temptress who would eat her lovers for dessert. Yum-yum.

So she came out into my little book. An odalisque under a full moon which just may fortell a transformation. What kind, you ask???? Oh you may not want to know. You may want to turn the page a search a gentler image than this waterlady. No seagull is going to bother her. No sailor will. No one.