Ariel Slick writes original fiction including short stories, novels, and memoirs to spread the joy of imagination and creativity. She also helps clients achieve their fiction writing goals with her ghostwriting skills on Upwork.com and Guru.com. 

Rory the merman wants just one thing in this life: to become a good king and lead his tribe of mer-people who live in the ocean, but when a mysterious illness strikes and mermaids start dying, he begins to investigate why, and who is behind it. 

When he discovers that it is humans who are dumping toxic waste into the water, he is spurred by tragedy to go ashore and speak with the human king himself. When he makes a deal with the evil Sea Warlock, he receives a magic spell to turn him human for seven days.

There’s just one catch: he must kill a human. That will be pretty difficult to do considering he just fell in love with the king’s daughter...


The King and His Sea

When the song ended, Katherine marched over to where they were standing, walked right up to them and said as cool as she could, "Hello Derrek."


The brief look of shock on his face was almost worth this wrenching in her heart. "Katherine, I-"


"It's fine, you don't have to explain anything," Katherine said. "I've seen enough. It's not like I've been waiting on you for months, without a single letter, without knowing if you were alive or dead. It's not like you promised me that you loved me before you left." As the words tumbled out of Katherine, she felt herself grow stronger, fiercer, with all the energy of the last three months suddenly released. 


"It's not like I really even cared about you, either," she said, the words tumbling faster and faster out of Katherine, words that she didn't even mean, but wanted to be true, just so this would not hurt so badly. 


Chapter 39