The Crocodile Twins (a folktale from Mermaid's Hands)

(I'm thinking if I create a website for Pen Pal, this will be the sort of thing I can put there.)


Sister Twin in the Crocodile's Mouth


So you want to hear the story of the crocodile twins, do you? Settle down, then, and I’ll tell you about them. The first thing to know is that they weren’t crocodiles, no. They were people like ourselves. And the second thing is that for most of this story, they weren’t “they.” They were just “she.”

Oh, they started out as “they”: two newborn babes, her with her...