The Mermaid Murder by Maggie Shayne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Maggie Shayne
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10 YEARS AGO
Eva went to The Sapphire Club to rehearse because the new routine
wasn’t quite there yet. God, she loved the pool room when no one else
was around. Chlorine in every breath and echoes of every step. The
pool was open, its mechanized cover pulled back into itself. She slid out of
her jeans, already wearing her smooth, shiny leggings underneath. Blue, not
that it mattered. She took off her blouse. Under it, she wore a bikini top
with seashell cups. It was padded though, and not as uncomfortable as it
looked.
She unzipped her custom garment bag and laid her beautiful mermaid
tail out on the cool concrete floor. It was the softest powder blue color at the
waist, and then it darkened through every imaginable shade of blue all the
way to the rich, deep, midnight color at the wide, fluted tail fin. It was
textured like a real fish, with each scale and the edges of the tail highlighted
in silver. Its lighter colors were iridescent and shimmered when she moved
in the lights. She knew just how to turn, how to swirl, how to flip, to make
the costume sparkle and shimmer for the audience.
She put the end of a long-handled hook through her zipper pull and laid
it where she’d be able to reach it, and then she wriggled into the tail, toes
first, lying on her belly. She took hold of the wood handle of the hook to
pull up the zipper. Her tail was skin-tight, and it took both arms and risked
dislocated shoulders to do it by herself.
Most of the mermaids couldn’t do it without help, but Eva had been at
this awhile and her Paul had spent more than he probably should have on a
this one. A wedding gift, he’d said. Custom made with a newfangled easyzip design.
“Easy, my tail,” she said, but she was smiling when she dropped the
zipper pull and rolled onto her back. She flipped her tail and admired its
delicate patterns. Every crease held hidden silver that winked and shone in
the light. It was the most beautiful tail she’d ever seen. She loved her tail.
Paul had designed it himself, even though latex wasn’t his medium. He
was a metal sculptor, her new husband. He made whimsical creatures and
plants out of steel, and sold enough to make a comfortable living.
He’d created the tail’s design, then found someone with the skill to
make it. He knew a lot of artists and sculptors. He said the colors were
perfect with her long, raven curls. That’s what he called them, long raven
curls.
He was a kind and wonderful man.
It wasn’t a mistake, marrying him. He was everything good and she was
determined to love him the way he loved her. And she could, she knew she
could.
He adored her. Had fallen for her the first time he’d seen her in this very
pool, he’d said, when some friends had dragged him to The Sapphire Club
for a show.
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