Dancing In The Dark (About A Coincidental Meeting With A Floating Mermaid)

• Avinka Kelaart, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2018

It was a dark cold night, out came a beautiful girl covered in mud. She started to dance, she was graceful, she was floating, she was pondering over the lake singing. She quietly dropped, as gently as a feather. She slowly touched the water, she slowly fell in. She slowly drowned, but came back up. She swam so softly, she floated. Her face went pink. She saw me, she came back up out of the water and floated away fast, almost running. She got caught on a thorny bush, she screamed loud, but she kept on going fast. Then I realised the mud had washed off, she had a tail, a mermaid tail and luscious long red hair. Before I could think, she disappeared, that was the last time I saw her.