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[WIP Writing Sample] The King and the Wicked Mermaid

I’ve been working on a fantasy children’s story currently called Shupikayi and the Coral Kingdom. I’m still trying to decide what I want to happen next, and I am considering making a few changes. This first chapter is one of the changes I made. I’m writing by the seat of my pants so I’m going to see if this sticks. Anyway, this is the prologue to the fantasy story about a young girl named Shupikayi who ends up running away from home and finds herself in a completely new and amazing, and a little scary place under the sea. Hope you enjoy this! *** Once upon a time, there was a noble king named King Vusumuzi. He ruled his kingdom with kindness and wisdom, and his wisdom brought great prosperity to his people. Gold, silver, precious stones, and other exotic goods were plentiful in the land, for he built great ships that sailed the seas to many islands to trade with many people. All of the king’s people were happy and all of them loved him. But none loved him as much as a young fair maiden...

Samantha's Gift

Some hear trees rustling, rivers gurgling, or the dry earth crunching.

Others don’t hear at all. 

I wish I could be like either of them and hear normal things 

Or absolutely nothing at all. 


But…I hear different things.

Things that shouldn’t talk but do. 

Like the earth, the trees, and the river.

It sounds crazy, I know, but it’s true.


I hear the trees whisper of ages long gone,

I hear the stream giggling about merry children,

I hear the earth groaning about the state of the world

And how it wished things were like Eden.


But I also hear another thing speak

Its voice shakes me to my core,

The blood of innocents crying 

To the Maker to exact justice on the evildoers it abhors.


Such is the nature of this gift

Which I bear with gladness and sorrow.

How the gift will serve me or others

I can only hope to know on the morrow.

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