Do you like to read? This is a story that literally grabs you
The red sphere which crowns the heavens dropped onto the lap of the sea in the Bay of Manila, while on the horizon gradually noticed a gray sky announcing the arrival of the night.
Lou, a young college student who is enthusiastic about reading, falls on the sand at the seashore, while the wet and delicious smell of seaweed penetrates his nostrils that the arrival of high tide brings with it. The night takes over your senses and begins the passionate reading of the book that you had been looking for a long time, and that you had finally managed to obtain, after months of hard work and saving money.
Lou is a feat in the youth world, despite his young age; he has had great success writing stories and experiences on an internet blog. Slender in build and caramel-colored skin, his brown eyes are usually hidden under large glasses. This unusual young man has made reading his main distraction, moving away for long hours from the virtual world of computers and even the real world to lodge his mind in his own world, created by the powerful imagination he possesses.
The sea breeze caressed his fingers as he turned another page of that absorbing novel. The appearance of the mist in the darkness of the beach, made the hair of the passionate reader stand on end, while only the light of a zigzagging flame of torches illuminated his hours of relaxation, the waves dragged under his feet, like his fingers trying to retain in his body, the reactions caused by the sensuality of the beautiful woman described in the story, which captivated his imagination from the photo on the cover, with which he had fallen in love.
Enraptured by the letters and the mild sea temperature Lou could already believe that he managed to catch the voice of his fictional princess, plunging into a hypnotic, romantic and overwhelming trance that he began to experience slowly in his own flesh, starting with the small bites on his neck, the thin nails scratching with sensual tickles on his legs upward, and the lady's soft lips beyond the lines.
Convinced that they were the sensations evoked by the author, the boy kept his small eyes closed, while his long black eyelashes were positioned against the curtain of a great theater.
Lou let her mind run wild, concentrating on imagining, just the remarkable description of the romantic scene that bounced around her brain tirelessly after reading it.
A perverse mermaid, camouflaged herself under the materialized image of beauty contained in the cover of the book, took the work in her hands to continue reading with a melodious voice, submerging the unfortunate man more and more, in a whirlwind of overwhelming sexual desire, according to what was described in the inks of the book that fueled his darkest carnal desires, and an overflowing passion that penetrated every fiber of his trembling body.
Slowly the sea monster was dragging it on the sand of the beach, until it began to float on the water, subdued by the dark magic of its song, until it took it to the depths of the ocean.
The lonely Lou, who felt in a dream, enjoying what he considered the art of immersion thanks to the author's pen, was poisoned with a passionate kiss on the fleshy lips of the animal, shortly before submerging it in the high seas.
When his eyes opened into the black tides, he only managed to look at the angelic face of his platonic love, the beautiful girl on the cover was in front of him, staring at him with those captivating yellow eyes, with long lashes and exceptional makeup that they had in love his soul, and the delusions of his heart that melted with sweetness for a couple of seconds.
However, the angelic illusion vanished when the sea witch's jaws opened, showing the horrifying real image of the monster that had him trapped within the sharp claws of her hands, which were inserted into his neck and chest like hooks; his pale, bluish complexion was transparent like jelly, revealing his misshapen bones covered by irregular scales; a long row of sharp, needle-thin teeth drew into an extended mouth, ready to engulf the entire head of young Lou. Who only managed to emit a terrifying cry of desperate death, which was drowned less than seven meters of dark water, without anyone ever knowing the reality of his encounter with the mystery in the beauty of a book.
The tide brought with it to the white sand of the Philippine seashore, a few days later the wet, torn, and algae-filled book.
But something disturbing stood out among the ruined pages, it was the mark of lips, and a heart drawn with blood by something thin that seemed to be very sharp.
This is an Original Story written by @susurrodelmisterio for read.cash
Based on Stories of Filipino Sailors
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This was just...wow. I loved the way you described each scene, I could easily mentally create an image of what was going on till the very last detail. So sad of Young Lou though but who could resist the sweet tunes and beauty of a mermaid. The sad part is they might never see his body again and the book will only lure more victims