"Her broken smile felt like an old painting he had seen hanging in the museum. Yet the only thing he could really notice, was that she was trapped. Haunted by her thoughts. Stranded. " 'Stranded Mermaid' is the winning entry for the 'Contest: Fractional Fantasy' by @highfantasy . It is a short fantasy story about a young man seeing a fantasy creature: a mermaid. He gets lost by the appearance of this stranded mermaid. He can't believe this is real. It must be a dream. A fantasy. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ © All Rights Reserved. All my works are originally created by me. This means no one can repost, copy, modify or just generally use it without my written permission.