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Become an Emerald Author
We just released our new monetization features with the soft launch of our paid subscription Portal, The Emerald Lounge. So, authors in the lounge can have paid subscribers for their content, be it poems, stories, or books, you know, the works you've been holding back until it's ready to shine like it should. Become an Emerald author by submitting your best work, or work you like. If you think you can out-drink, or even hang until closing time with Hemingway or Hank, we want to meet you. Accepted authors will receive a code for "Become an Emerald Author," which you will find in your settings. Go get it.
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AyeMich

Floating on Forever.

She was the bane of my existence.

Walking around, not-so-subtly staring at

the person I, too, secretly longed for.

How dare she?

We had our run-ins and you can bet that I told her what for.

Then, the unthinkable happened.

I was targeted by a mad-man.

Me, a 15 year old, was targeted and I had to leave everything that I knew behind.

I survived for two years on my own.

I left my friends, my family and her...

All the while, she grew some balls

and before I knew it, she was with my mermaid.

I came back though.

For her, I came back.

And without lifting a finger,

I watched that girl ruin everything she'd worked so hard for.

She made a mistake that even I wouldn't dream of, and finally, my mermaid was free.

So, I made it my mission to change.

To show her that I was who she thought I could be all along.

Because she made me better.

I may still feel like I'm drowning, but it's not so bad when you have a mermaid swimming next to you.