Mermaid
The mermaid is a strange short story by Julia Blackburn. It’s about this young man who finds a mermaid lying on the beach looking almost dead, the man runs away to tell somebody, but nobody seems to listen to him. He returns to bury the mermaid, but she’s gone and only a lock of her hair can be found. ... Like why doesn’t anybody listen to this man storming into town saying that he has a half dead mermaid lying at the beach? ... The young man gets more and more intent on caching this mermaid in his fishing net and travels farther and farther away from shore.