February 2018 -- 75-word Story Challenge -- VICTORY TO BOB SENIOR!

[Hugh]

So it goes​

When I first met Kali she ate my brains straight out of my skull and hung my head round her waist.

I thought this a bit over the top, but the other heads said this was normal and I should enjoy the process of dissolution.

Strangely, even all-encompassing Kali could not digest my obfuscating ego. I was vomited up and abandoned, bereft, to resume (after a shower) my work in accounts.

So it goes.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Thunderstruck



Mighty Zeus in skies above
Strike down now the one I love
Make him shiver, make him moan
Make him for his sins atone!

He is thoughtless, he is mean
He could make Harpocrates scream!
Never drops the toilet seat
Never leaves the kitchen neat

Behold divine one, here he comes!
Back from carousing with his chums
Err...Mighty Zeus withhold thy powers
Look, he's brought me pretty flowers!

 

[ASleepyGiraffe]

Backspace

The people of Elsarya existed only for a moment.

They were born of ink, and formed to life in the imagination. Virtual parchment, the unseen fabric of their reality.

Their God sat, hunched over a desk, rubbing at her eyes, wondering where it all went wrong.

It had been perfect in her head. She couldn’t fathom it. Why wasn’t this working?

Her world deserved more than she could deliver.

She hit delete, and Elsarya disappeared.

 

[jackwin]

g-d awful

They sat in the cafaterium after lunch, two weeks before graduation.
"But, how can he not know?" "With all the flies constantly around him and his smell, like dead fish in august"
Becky wasn't insulting Justin. She was just discussing him with David. They were his best friends since first grade, his only friends, the only two people
in town who didn't call him "Pigpen".
"He can't help it Beck." "Not all gods are blessed!"

 

[Vaz]

Chains of Estárra

Sanghee scolded the heavens as she lifted her hammer. She struck the forbidden chain as the Old Ones decorated the plains with fire and fury.

And fear.

Change, the Gods fear it. They're quick to alter a mortals path; blow across like the winds and send them back to the beginning.

We need no Gods.

A final blow, and the chain broke.

The Jaguar was free.

He would devour them all.

 

[Cory Swanson]

Hobby Kit


“How does it work?”

“Flip this switch and dimensions one through three unfurl.”

“What regulates the expansion rate?”

“This knob over here. If you overdo it, all the matter in your universe will fly apart.”

“And too little?”

“It’ll clump up. Supermassive black holes and such.”

“I don’t know. A whole universe growing in my living room? Seems sketchy. What if I change my mind?”

“For an extra fifty, I’ll throw in the armageddon switch.”

 

[mosaix]

Locusts?

"And I thought it was for us! Have you seen the inscriptions?"

"I know. It’s for one of their so-called ‘kings’. The arrogance!"

"And now, to add insult to injury, they’ve accepted help building the thing from a bunch of interloping mortals from the fourth planet pretending to be us!"

"We need to teach them a few lessons. Any thoughts?"

"I was thinking frogs. Maybe a plague of frogs?"

"Perfect. Then what?"

 

[chrispenycate]

Orphaned Godling

Even more than human infant, young immortal needs controlling,
Contradiction and restriction of mobility,
If discipline isn't available with seniority.
It's mortal congregations must apply persuasive patrolling.
Not straightforward restraining impulses of deities -
Who consider that reality's precisely what they say it is.

Indestructible, unstoppable the infant crawls destructively
"Can I eat it?" The answer's always 'yes'.
No obligation to clear up the mess.

The True Believers show incompetence
When faced with infantile omnipotence.

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[johnnyjet]

Eris and Ares Shook Hands

The drone deposited Earthman and Quesellian by a lodge on the prehistoric planet. Automata escorted them within its protective walls.

Each set a box with a red button on a wooden table.

"Many worlds depend on our negotiations."

"Peace or war? Let's talk."

A ruckus made them look up.

Suddenly a drone with mangled pterodactyl crashed through the roof, hitting the table and smashing down onto both boxes.

Far above two gods shook hands.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Before the Beginning

Jeva had been born different to those around him. Asexual, sexless and with the ability to draw energy from the Power Well without the enhancements normally required.

Limitless access to the nano-energy was more than a child could be expected to live with.

Overwhelmed Jeva screamed, fracturing realities, absorbing quantum stellar technologies, obliterating everything until only darkness remained.

Jeva drifted in nothing. Afraid of the dark. “Let there be light!”

And there was light…

 

[Parson]

A Family Miracle​

Joshua knocks. His badge reads “J’s Plumbing.” The house is quiet.

“Oh good; you’re here.” Mom leads to the kitchen where her son and daughter are looking at their screens and leaves.

“What happened here?”

“Mom was draining the sink when the cupboard started gushing.”

Joshua smiles and explains about cast iron.

Within twenty minutes a lively family conversation is going which doesn’t stop when he leaves.

Mission accomplished.

He’s instantly across town.

Joshua knocks.

 

[Bob Senior]

Live Forever

A Pharaoh, God, Immortal, this he was told all his life.
Then one morning he watched as they carried him to the embalmers.
He watched as the torches in the pyramid faded away.
In total darkness he slept for 3000 years.

Then light returned.
He watched as they carried him to the museum.

Forever displayed in a glass case with heart and soul in clay jars.
It's no way to treat a God he thought..

 

[TitaniumTi]

Seeing the Light

Vijay landed the time capsule with a thump. “There’s the road to Damascus and - look! Saul is leading that group of horsemen.”

Callum scowled. “Damn waste of time, chasing a myth.” His phone pinged and he grumbled, “What fool’s texting me now?” Then he froze, eyes widening. “Who? How? It’s 36 A.D.” Frantically, he tapped the screen.

You’re welcome to observe, but for God’s sake keep quiet and stay in your capsule.

 

[Garfunkel]

Evangelism

The spaceship hummed as it began its descent to the planet’s surface.
“Religious texts and pamphlets?”
“Yar.”
“The holy statues and relics?”
“Yar.”
“Water cubes and liquid food?”
“Yar.”
“Donation boxes?”
A pause. Some frantic scrambling in boxes.
“Nar.”
“Nar?”
“Yar.”
“Oh. Say, you don’t know how to turn this thing around, do you?”
"Nar."

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Faster, Pussycat…


“And you shall be the goddess of—”

Crash!

“…cats,” finished the registrar. “What was that?”

The newly assigned goddess of cats peered nonchalantly over the edge, blinking at the scattered shards on the earth below. Shrugged.

The registrar glared. “That does it! You broke your fellow god; now all his pieces shall forevermore love every creature but yours. Your creatures shall he torment. To remind you always, each little god shall be known as ‘dog’.”

 

[Stable]

Tweet Loud Enough The Gods Can Hear​

“What in my own name is a hashtag, anyway?” demanded Zeus. Despite his apparent confusion his fingers inched closer to a lightning bolt.

“Stop avoiding the point,” said Themis, voice cracking. “There isn’t a goddess present who hasn’t felt your hands or worse.”

“I fought Typhon for you. I’m your king!”

“Touch any of us again,” said Demeter, “and I will cast you down myself.”

“Me too.”

“Me too.”

“Me too.”

Zeus’ hand trembled, weaponless.

 

[LittleStar]

Deus Ex Machina

Yves pulled Eda tighter, gliding his eyes, covering his ears; as best she could at least.

Tears burnt, and fingers trembled in Eda's hair. "Please, you don't have to do this."

"Father Meier named you Divinities, but you are Abominations." The Inquisitor spat. "Earth is for the living, not you."

"But we feel alive"

"Meier was clever. No one ever said otherwise. But a greater power than me judges you"

Then there was still hope.

 

[Joshua Jones]

The Prophet

"...Turns out, she had been cheating the whole time. In other entertainment news, the Vela colony executed the supposed 'prophet' Moshe today before record crowds."

Clark spun, glaring back at the television.

"He was convinced of inciting a clone riot, practicing ancient religions, and sedition. His body will be displayed..."

Moshe was the eighth this month. They will not repent.

Clark's body transfigured, and voice shattered the building. The foretold day of wrath had come.

 

[The Judge]

A Very Long Night at the Opera



“Tell me again why we’re here.”

“That Wagner chappie wrote about us. We should see what he’s done.”​

“Why up here, though, so far from the stage?”

“This is the gods, Fricka.”​

“That woman who’s singing, who’s she meant to be? We don’t know anyone that fat.”

“Er... Have a read of the programme, dear.”​

“What is this goddamn thing?”

“Götterdämmerung. Twilight of the Gods.”​

“Twilight? Oh good. A sparkly vampire’s just what it needs.”

 

[Ursa major]

They Think Therefore We Are​

“You look worried.”

“Inside, I’m terrified.”

“Why? We’re gods.”

“Haven’t you been watching our believers?”

“Not for millennia. Their savagery bores me.”

“They’ve taken up rationality in a big way. If they don’t believe we exist, we may fade away entirely.”

“I’m quaking in my sandals.”

“They’ve made logic their god.”

I smile. “Then we’re completely safe: the Vulcans now believe in logic… and logic tells us that one cannot prove that something doesn’t exist.”

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