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Random mermaid
It's never a good sign when you're trying to write and you're giggling so hard at what's happening that you can't even get the right words down.

Once upon a time, a story started with love. Then the black rider came. Love was covered over in pox and lumps and pustules. Good fortune is sometimes ugly. The dead do not take kindly when the living beg for beauty. Sometimes vanity smells like sizzling flesh.