The Medium-Sized Mermaid (Not-So-Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Deluded Custodians Challenge : March Edition
Ann James asked, “If you took time off from medium.coma to write a best-selling novel or a screenplay, what songs would be in your soundtrack when it’s produced by netflix/hollywood/___?”
Since I already have a best-selling novel, let me share it with all you lovely people. At the time of writing, it has sold exactly zero copies, which is why it is called a best-selling novel.
Anyway, the story is about a medium-sized mermaid named Beryl, who was turned into a human as punishment for accidentally eating the Mermaid Queen’s birthday cake. Her only hope of becoming a mermaid again is to make the first guy she sees fall in love with her. It is an arduous and difficult journey but she manages to do it in the end. However, the guy cheats on her before she can turn back into a mermaid and so she remains stuck as a human for all eternity. It doesn’t matter to her in the end because being human is so much more fun than being a fish.
And now let’s talk about the soundtrack.
I want something dramatic for the opening scene when Beryl is caught licking her fingers after eating nearly half of the human-themed birthday cake. The angry Mermaid Queen is really going for…
