MARCH 2020 75-Word Writing Challenge—VICTORY TO DAYSMAN!

[Perpetual Man]

No Time to Transform

Perp looked at the Caterpillar.

"But I had such a good idea for a story. It had dinosaurs in it!"

The Caterpillar drew on the thick old stogie and blew a huge grey-blue smoke ring onto the air.

"I know. Hell, I could metamorph into something different and wonderful, but you know what? Figure there has been enough change in the world. Let's just leave it alone."

"But dinosaurs..."

 

[Abernovo]

Spooky Action at a Distance

″Are you sure?″ they asked, before I went under.

Of course I wasn′t, but my body was failing. Twenty-eight, and killed by a Jovian cytotoxin. The doctors would salvage what they could. Cybernetics, and a quantum organic processor would fix the rest.

A voice whispered after I woke. ″We are here, across the universe. Do you wish to join the collective?″

After two days, I whispered back.

We understand better now. We are one.

 

[Ursa major]

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The ‘Should Have Been’ Star of S.125​

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Why me?​

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I’m not banal, one who can’t make it on its own, but needs clever variations to justify its presence.​

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I’m not the flashy but shallow type. They become leitmotifs.​

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I’m ‘poetic’, ‘sinuous’, ‘haunting’, according to the critics. I should’ve been left to shine. On. My. Own.​

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I start the concerto by entrancing the listener. Fifteen minutes of being mangled and what am I? A bloody march, that’s what!​

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Damn Liszt. Damn ‘thematic transformation’!​

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[Ursa major]

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