The Mermaid & The Pirate - A Short Story

Written in 2021 | Rewritten in 2024 | 6,377 words

The story you are about to read is a “vomit draft.” This means that it is in its rawest form of writing and has no professional editing done whatsoever. But I welcome any corrections, grammatical or otherwise, you may find.

The evening fog was so thick the pirate ship was forced to drop anchor several hundred yards from its destination. The crew was beginning to get restless as this was the twelfth day they’ve been anchored to this point and Captain Swift was running out of ways to distract them from trying to plan a coup. This was his ship and his dream, he wasn't about to let a less than mediocre crew change what he believed to be a predestined chain of events that would lead to his finding the Island of Whispers.