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Genre: Fantasy
About LouisaBLocation: England Home Region: Age:34 Favorite novels: Too many to list. Favorite writers: Again, too many to list. Favorite music: Local radio Non-noveling interests: Photography and virtual pets. |
Joined: Oktober 13, 2009 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 6 NaNoWriMo buddies: 6
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Synopsis: Oceans Apart
Twin sons born to a mermaid and a human live very different lives. One is human and does not grow fins in the water, the other has fins, but cannot grow legs on land.
One is manipulative and selfish, whilst the other always puts others first. They are as different as night and day in all ways except appearance.
Both young men are trapped in their own worlds until the day they come of age. Then everything changes...
Suddenly each of the twins find that a whole new world awaits them, and they learn things about themselves that they never knew before.
But the biggest secret of all is still hidden, and there is someone out there who is determined to stop them from uncovering the truth, at any cost.
Excerpt: Oceans Apart
His friends were still laughing at his clumsiness, but he couldn’t even muster a smile as he looked at the lower half of his body.
“Shit!” he whispered as he continued to stare at what he was sure he couldn’t be seeing. Finn’s warning hadn’t prepared him at all, and more than anything he wished his brother was with him right now, to help him understand what had happened to him.
He placed his hands firmly on the ground beneath the water, determined not to touch the tail and fins that had replaced his legs and feet. If he didn’t touch it, then perhaps it wouldn’t be real.
But it was real, very real.
The scales of the tail were varying shades of blue and green, and the fins were golden. He had never seen anything like it before, and he didn’t want to see it now.
He was still mesmerised in horror when he realised that his friends were no longer laughing and were in fact right upon him.
“Is it real?” Damien asked, his voice awed.
Josh shook his head mutely. It couldn’t be real.
He saw a hand reaching out towards him and he batted it away. “Don’t touch it,” he hissed.
“But how did you get it?” Andy asked.
“I don’t bloody know,” Josh snarled. “It just appeared when I fell over.”
“Does it hurt?”
“No, but it feels really strange.” He looked up at his friends, and was surprised to see that the horror he was feeling wasn’t reflected on their faces. Instead they seemed fascinated by the tail and fins that were visible just below the surface of the water.
Josh wondered how he was going to get out of the water and get his legs back. He didn’t relish the idea of dragging himself out of the water, but nor did he want to suggest that one of his friends help him to dry land.
“Have you got gills?” Andy questioned.
Josh’s hand flew to his neck and he frantically searched for anything unusual that hadn’t been there before. “I don’t think so,” he finally said with a sigh of relief.
“How do you breathe under the water then?”
“I don’t,” Josh snapped. “I can’t even swim, remember?”
“A mermaid that can’t swim,” Mitchell chuckled.
“I’m not a bloody girl,” Josh pointed out, his voice rising in temper. “I’ve grown a tail and fins, not breasts!”
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