Two Sentence Challenge #3

[Kitti]

It is said that brevity is the soul of wit. There is, without a doubt, a time and place for long paragraphs filled with wondrous descriptions. Other times, however, less is more. What can you create from the prompt using only two sentences?

This time, the theme is:

Mermaids​

 

[Ravenfrost]

Before heading out of the cavern on his big date, Stormbreaker admired himself in the hall of mirrors--yes, every draconic scale was polished and gleaming. He couldn't wait to impress his new lady love with his excellent choice of seafood restaurants, knowing that tonight they had something extra special on the menu.

 

[Blythe]

With the raging storm making the ocean seethe and drown, dragging the poor lost ship down, the souls on that ship had not hope of escaping their own mortality. A wondrous music filled the air, though, and though lives were brought to an end that dark and gloomy night they did not suffer for long thanks to the mysterious people of the ocean.

 

[Asmodeus]

Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun. Wandering free, wish I could be, part of that world.

 

[InkWren]

She caught it: the handsome young mortal. It belonged to her now, for Merfolk did not believe in catch and release.

 

[PoetLore]

Jock sat on the surfboard alone, waiting for the next set to ripple from far below. He was shocked when he felt a weight on the front of his board, and turning, was greeted by the most mesmerizing pair of sparkling blue eyes.

 

[Ravenbelle]

Her parents think she's taken an interest in running by the ocean, but she's been falling deeper into it every day. Her gilled guardians think she's testing her tail in new waters, but fins and feet have met on a shore where neither world can forbid the sweetest love.​

 

[Guardian Angel]

The mermaids were known for drowning the two legged monsters that roamed the land above the surface and many had lost their lives after falling for the siren's call. The young girl who strayed to close to the cavern's edge to get a peek at what swam below had been met with the same fate, her lifeless corpse just a white buoy floating in the crystal clear pool.

 

[ThE_DeAd]

Manny cast his anchor into the lagoon and clambered recklessly to one side of the bow as the skiff pitched to-and-fro. Peering through the mists, his upper body planked out over the black waters, he steadied himself with an uncertain grip; it was here he would wait.

 

[Vendethiel]

There were hundreds of them, their beauty unrivaled as they gracefully moved through the water; myth and lore had become truth and reality.
He'd searched relentlessly for them, the sirens of the sea, to discover something he thought he had lost, honor.

 

[Greenie]

Mermaids, shmermaids, he was not going to write about something so bland and boring.

Not when there was the Mighty Kraken to regale readers about!

 

[LuckycoolHawk9]

He hadn't expected that he was becoming one of those sea-creatures until today. How the hell did he become a mermaid when he was not a female?

 

[Starlighter]

Delicately handcrafted by the elderly fisherman who manned it alone, a small fishing vessel bobbed and swayed with the ebbing tide. Floating smoothly above the gentle waves, a song touched lightly upon his hears - a song that he could not resist, a song that called him out to sea from whence he would never return.

 

[noodle]

The mermaid got caught in the net, but she was not one to be trifled with, and she could free herself. Of course, she only stayed because she so loved being able to sing to the whole ship at once.

 

[Doctor Jax]

The sailor pointed out the thing in the water, a gray and rotund thing with a peaceful snout and undulating, pensive tail, and he said to his buddy next to him, "I think it's a mermaid!"

"Mate, the only way that is a mermaid, is if you been seein' some ugly women on shoreleave."