Olive The Drama is the Mermaid Dayz collection where the attitude runs highest, and almost none of it belongs to her. A crab holds up a sign. A pufferfish takes it personally. A seagull has a great deal to say. She is on the rock, hearing every word, and enjoying the show far more than she should.
The crabs put it in writing
The crabs in this collection do not pinch, they publish. In Fabulously Unbothered a crab at the foot of the rock holds a little board telling her to watch her attitude, and she answers from behind her sunglasses that she is, and it is fabulous. Never Too Much has a crab on the dock asking on a sign if this is too much, while she sips and declines to answer. Not My Problem puts the crab on a buoy with an attitude problem sign, and she has already turned away with her cocktail and a tag of her own that reads not mine. Finally Self-Aware hands the crab a card that simply says crabby, and her face says she has waited years for him to admit it. Pick Your Battles skips the sign: chin on fist, a crab on the sand below, and one question about whether he really wants to do this.
Somebody is puffy
The pufferfish is the other half of the drama and he cannot help himself. Drama Per Inch has a red-haired mermaid on a buoy sizing up a fish swollen to twice his normal self, and she is not wrong about the ratio. Puff Happens pairs an enormous mane of maroon hair with an equally enormous puffer, so it is anyone's guess who started it. In Puff And Polish she does her nails on the rock while he hovers, spiky and waiting to be noticed.
Loud birds, quiet answers
When the drama flies in, she handles it from a seat. Selective Hearing Only has her in sunglasses with a gull squawking right behind her and a note that it was a lot of words. Seagull Standoff puts a purple umbrella between her and a gull perched on top of the buoy, and the message is that he should not dare. Side Eye Siren needs no caption at all, just a gull on the rock beside her and a look that could sink a dinghy. Save The Drama closes her eyes against the dock post and tells the crab below to save it for the tail.
For the one who did not start it
This is for the woman who has been called too much and took it as a review. She watched the crab bring a sign and stayed for the second act. She will know which one is hers by the second picture, and exactly which one to send her sister. The pufferfish is still puffed. The gull is still going. The show is nowhere near over.
Written by Mari Bennett. Thanks for reading.