Fish Sticks
By Sam, age 19, Massachusetts
Sweet Designs Staff Intern
Sweet Designs Featured Writer
I am not a fish! she cries out.
You cannot eat me.
The fisherman laughs.
A jolly, boisterous laugh.
One that shakes the boat with its volume.
Not a fish, he repeats.
Not a fish!
The mermaid, trapped in his net, pouts and crosses her arms.
She isn't human either.