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I wrote a microficition about a mermaid, so I did have fun with 'mermay'.

And the Kingdom of Atlantis is the biggest importer of American beef. Yes, even larger than the People's Republic of China and the Martian Imperium.

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It's getting harder and harder to keep those martians fed!

Can you share a link to your mermaid microfiction? In case any readers here want to follow through and see yours?

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Sure. It's part of my "100 Word Stories" series, so I posted it on Notes:

https://substack.com/profile/129765463-michael-p-marpaung/note/c-15943133

EDIT: You can also see it in my 'Index of Microfiction', it's story number 8:

https://germanicuscaesar117.substack.com/p/index-of-microfiction

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Haha love it

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1. To be broken up with for sure. A girl broke up with me via email once. There's a story there *takes note*

2. This May was the first time I became cognizant of the existence of Mermay, so I was more of a outsider looking in. I have been thinking about how Mermaids have been portrayed differently and a lot of PR has changed the way we see Mermaids now. For example, the mermaids in Peter Pan were trying to drown Wendy...which is how I originally remembered Mermaids, you know...the creatures that would lure sailors with their singing so their ships would crash? But then Ariel "loves" Eric after stalking him for a little bit, pyscho. Still, my daughter's favorite movie, at the moment.

3. I love this idea. Thinking of Mermaids eating bbq and burgers makes me giddy.

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They'll say that BBQ Chicken is the Tuna of the Land!

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YES

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I don't have experience with dating and didn't do Mermay, but I think mermaids would have land food restaurants at high prices due to issues with getting it. Though they'd also be into sea food. Because fish tend to eat other fish.

The story itself is rather sad.

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Drowned Beef instead of Ground beef? There's some potential there. It would definitely be fine dining for the Merfolk!

Thank you for reading, William! It's a little sad, but he was no good for her anyway 😊

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