IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

From Reader's Digest

December, 2013

 

[Submission to Bulwe-Lytton Fiction Contest]

[Date unknown]

By Jordan Kaderli

 

Betty had eyes that said come here, lips that said kiss me, arms and torso that said hold me all night long, but the rest of her body said, Fillet me, cover me in cornmeal, and fry me in peanut oil; romance wasn't easy for a mermaid.