My response to today’s prompt from The Fiction Dealer.
He steered his boat toward the source of the song. He eventually came to a rocky island and found a mermaid stretched out under the sun.
She smiled at him and swam to the side of his boat and propped up on the starboard bow.
He asked for a kiss. She giggled, blushed, and nodded her head. Before he touched her lips, she grabbed him around the neck and pulled him under the surface.
He would never hear another song.