July 2019: 75-Word Story Challenge -- VICTORY TO THE JUDGE!

[Ursa major]

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The Gents: Rocking the World for Ninety Years​

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Their music caught the zeitgeist – some claimed it created it – but no-one knew who they were.​

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Their names were known: Alyn (vocals); Fish (drums, songwriter); Telly (bass); Arty (keyboards). Never seen in the flesh, the Gents did appear on videos, though facial recognition software failed to identify them.​

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Their incomes were untraceable: everything went to charity.​

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With such a long career, the answer should’ve been obvious.​

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And it was.... Arty, Fish, Alyn, Telly: Gents.​

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[The Judge]

Let AI – and G&S – Entertain You​

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I am the only model of an AI Impresario,​

I’ve information technical re: audio and stereo,​

I vlog the works of Shakespeare, Becket and Boccaccio​

And tube the tunes from Handel’s most turgid Oratario.​

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I'm well acquainted, too, with virtual Caravaggio,​

I’ve pioneered the simming of Mozart’s gay Seraglio,​

I’ve terpsichored in Darwin and Rio de Janeirio.​

In short, in matters worldwide of techno-arts scenario​

I am the only model of an AI Impresario.​

 

[TheDustyZebra]

The Stars Before Us


"Are you ok?"

"I... I don't know. What is it? How...?"

"It's primitive art, from the earliest civilization we've uncovered."

"It feels different. Strange. Were they like us?"

"Human, yes. But not connected. There’s no hive mind archive guiding this piece. That’s what you’re feeling."

"Not… I don’t understand. This artist worked… alone?"

"Without the hive, yes. But he clearly connected somehow — he painted the movement of the stars, planets, the meaning of the cosmos."

 

[Ursa major]

This challenge is now closed to new entries.

Voting is open at the link below:

POLL -- July 2019 75-Word Challenge -- READ FIRST POST!​