Date: 6/18/2016
By empa
At first I was a young girl, it seemed I used to be human, but had become a mermaid in the past, I was now human again and enjoying having my legs back. I was on a beach and wanted to surf, so I made a board out of drift wood and tried to enjoy myself, however after a few waves I crashed into the sand. As I lay in the sand, I found an old clogged up watch that wasn't working, so I decided to take it and clean it out and hopefully make it work again. I took it to this shack on the beach where a prosurfer lived to see if he could help me, but he told me to give it up, it won't work. But I tried anyway. I cleared most of the sand but when I went to set the time, every time I moved the minute hand five minutes, the hour hand also skipped five hours, I couldn't set it accurately. I decided to try again tomorrow so went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and I was suddenly a young boy, beside me in the bed was a violin case, I had the urge to go walking, so I picked up the case, went out the house, and walked into the forest along the beach. I went down some wooden stairs set into a hill and at the bottom found a girl with her own violin case and a shovel, it was dark out, so I offered to let her stay the night l. We walked back up the stairs with our cases and she started rambling "soon he'll be back I just have to do the final thing, then mommy won't be sad anymore" I got a bit frightened, and eventually ran away from her when she stopped walking and picked up her shovel. Behind me I could hear the sound of dirt being dug. I went back to sleep as soon as I could, but woke up again during the night with the girl shaking me awake, she was excited and whispered "teddy is back, now he can help me find brother", I looked to my side and in the bed with me was a rotting but animated corpse of an infant, smiling at me. I screamed and tried to run out of my room but blocking the door was another rotting but animated boy about seven years old. I now realised what had been in her violin case. It suddenly flashed back to a night a month or so ago, where the house of this deranged girl, boy and baby had been broken into, the police had been called and we're searching the area for the burglar, armed with rifles. The seven year old boy was carrying the baby around the complex to try calm him down and didn't realise the police were out and accidentally walked up behind an officer and spooked him, causing him to fire on instinct, shooting through the boys stomach. The mother screamed and ran over, and the boy was clutching the baby as he died, the baby had been in the course of the bullet too, and said "I'm sorry mommy, I just wanted to calm teddy like you do sometimes by taking him for a walk" , he died. His sister blamed herself as she had suggested the walk which drove her to try resurrect them, to reunite the family.