Goldfish Mermaid

She sat in a puddle her face buried in her hands.

They broke her.

Ripped...

Shredded...

Pulled her life apart.

Oh how her tender heart ached. Oh how it burned with a deep sorrowful pain!

The koi pond had been her home, and her sanctuary.

They destroyed it. Broke it down and poisoned its crystal clear waters.

The koi were dead. All dead.

And worse, the mortal woman, she who had cared for her, saved her from the jaws of death when she was young...

...was no more.

Beaten.

Murdered.

And for what?

For being different.

For being foreign.