My Mirror, My Opposite
ShortStory 4,584 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The song begins like this: “Once there was a fishgirl who sacrificed her heart and life and voice for a prince, and her reward was a path to heaven.” All those stories, about fishgirls yearning for legs... Are human storytellers really so arrogant, believing we are the only enviable ones? Let’s clear up one thing: that night, the storm didn’t hurl me into the sea."
Content warnings 2
suicideviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.