River’s End (A Twisted Mermaid Tale)

Delta B. McKenzie
Nov 5 · 3 min read
A black mermaid
A black mermaid
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The water was murky, a thick green sludge marring its surface but the group of boys barely noticed it, enraptured as they were by the woman on the rock.

They’d found her quite by accident, had almost ignored her at first but there was something about her that couldn’t be ignored.

Perhaps it was the darkness of her skin, the hue that seemed to devour the dappled sunlight that…

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Delta B. McKenzie

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Just a Jamaican-British writer trying to make things work in a big world. Horror Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction.

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