Just realized I never gave feedback to your piece all those months ago, @Gabriela Haworth. It was so beautiful and haunting! I liked how you incorporated those stanzas from the song you chose, and it was powerful how you used an innocent and confused child's pov to say difficult, mature things. Great job!

Hello, and happy return, W.O.R.D.ies! I'm so glad to be finally presenting you all with our prompt for this week, which you've probably gathered is centered around mythical creatures.

Personally, they've always been a subject of great fascination for me, and often manage to find their way into my writing. As this is a roleplaying site for a fantasy series, you're probably pretty familiar with them as well. There aren't a lot of guidelines this week, just allow yourself to be inspired by these mysteries of mythology. Perhaps a series of haiku about Bigfoot, or some stream-of-consciousness prose following pixies in the Florida everglades. A free verse poem about a mermaid with a dark secret, or a screenplay scene exploring what Medusa does on the weekends. A Guild of Imaginary Creatures having a meeting, even. You may take inspiration from creatures within the Potterverse, or those featured within Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Native American, etc. mythologies, or beings from popular urban legends. Heck, if you wanted to make up your own creature and write about them, that would be super cool, too.

Here's a brief list of mythical creatures to get you started:
- Dragon
- Unicorn/pegasus
- Phoenix
- Mermaid
- Gorgon (Medusa)
- Gnome/dwarf
- Fairy/pixie
- Sphinx
- Thestral
- Griffin
- Loch Ness Monster
- Yeti
- Leprechaun
- Ghost (I guess)
- Hippocampus
- Dryad
- Hag
- Kelpie

Don't be afraid to go really obscure, although a new take on an overused creature is always fun.

And if your writing takes a different direction and you look up from your paper or the keyboard to find a monologue about toothbrushes or corruption in government, that's great too! Feel free to share if you wish, as long as it's relatively PG-13. Take a look at the site rating if you're not sure.

I think that's about it, so happy writing!

~Calypso

the siren's melody (hello, sailor)
tw: death/drowning

Reducio

hello, sailor
welcome to my world

my wonderful beautiful world
(think not of your purpose)
my lovely watery world
(think not of your land)
my golden sparkling world
(think not of your home)

will you join me?

hello, sailor
listen to my song

my peaceful wonderful song
(think not of your music)
my wordless meaningful song
(think not of your warnings)
my simple lilting song
(think not of your hopes)

will you join me?

hello, sailor
gaze at my tail

my dazzling magical tail
(think not of your form)
my shimmery dark tail
(think not of your family)
my gorgeous mystical tail
(think not of your turmoil)

will you join me?

hello, sailor
feel my wind

my whispering screaming wind
(think not of your ship)
my caressing wrecking wind
(think not of your crew)
my pleasant biting wind
(think not of your cargo)

will you join me?

hello, sailor
swim in my waters

my calming cooling waters
(think not of your life)
my still azure waters
(think not of your shipwreck)
my glassy empty waters
(think not of your past)

will you join me?

hello, sailor
take my hand

my soft clean hand
(think not of your lungs)
my leading promising hand
(think not of your breath)
my delicate smooth hand
(think not of your air)

hello, sailor

@Calypso Starling