Island

A young man lies on the ground on what appears to be an island.

The young man awakens and is in disbelief.

What happened he says to himself.

For context, the young man had just come home from work and went to his room to go to sleep, and the first thing he is greeted with upon waking up is a change of scenery.

The young man decides that the first order of business is to look for others, after a while of searching he finds not a single soul.

Disappointed and scared he sits next to the ocean and listens to the sound of the ocean and the chirping of the birds.

The young man walks around the island looking for food, the man has no knowledge of the outdoors nor any survival skills so he trusted his instincts and hoped that the berries he had eaten weren't poisonous.

After a few hours of lying down on the shore, he starts to hear singing.

Alarmed the young man rises to his feet and looks in the direction of the singing.

It's coming from down to his left, so he walks down the side of the island.

The closer he gets the more clearly he can hear the singing.

He stops in front of the water and stares into it hearing the singing more and more clearly.

Suddenly a beautiful naked woman with short bob length hair rises from the sea, the bottom half of her body looking like that of a fish.

The young man is completely captivated by her looks and curvaceous body.

"H-hi." the young man says to the woman.

"Why hello there." the woman says to the man.

Wow, an actual mermaid exists the young man thought to himself.

Fast forward a few hours the young man and the mermaid became quick friends, after all this was the only person for the young man to speak to.

The sun was setting and the young man was getting tired.

The mermaid noticed how lethargic the young man was becoming and started singing a song to get him to go to sleep.

The song started very peacefully as the young man started to doze off he became uncomfortable and felt something wrong in his soul.

The song was gradually getting darker and darker and started sounding like a song about cannibalism.

As the young man was about to ask her what was going on he suddenly noticed that the lower half of his body was gone, and was below him was the mermaid chewing at his flesh and bones.

Turns out this wasn't a mermaid but instead a siren.

He's heard the stories of the sirens and how they capture voyagers with their songs.

But the feeling of being all alone and desolate on that island with no one to talk to made him not even consider the possibility of the woman being evil.

So the young man's final thoughts were that of regret.

The regret of not considering the possibility of the mermaid being a siren, the regret of him never being able to do anything with his life, the regret of him just now getting a job after being a shut-in for years.

His final thought being, how did things end up like this.

The End.