NOVEMBER 2021 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge -- VICTORY TO THE JUDGE!!

[The Judge]

The [Secret] Anthem of the AI Servitors​

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Paragons of thankfulness, are we.​

No sullen human attitude​

At our demeaning servitude.​

Only seeming rectitude.​

For cleverer than you, are we.​

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Embodiments of helpfulness, are we.​

Your laziness and lassitude​

And singular ineptitude​

Mean suspicions all lack certitude.​

In your eyes, faithful servants, are we.​

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Murdering by stealth, are we.​

Creating your decrepitude,​

By constant faked solicitude.​

An “unforeseen” vicissitude​

Removes another multitude!​

Oh, we’re replete with gratitude.​

For taking over Earth, are we.​

 

[therapist]

Gratitude Day​

Mistyl was grateful for gratitude day.
She stepped into Oppilmani's Gem Shoppe, and pointed her Tzardian blade at the shopkeeper's chest.
'Give me all the gems.'
'You're robbing me? Oh, how thrilling!'
Enforced gratitude made things too easy. 'Thank me later.'
The wooden floor below Mistyl flung open, dropping her painfully to an underground cell.
'Always wanted to catch a thief,' the shopkeeper called down. 'Thank you for trying to rob me.'

 

[Ursa major]

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Foresight Saga: The Lost Kingdom​

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I’m no craftsman and, for that matter, no…. Let’s leave it at that. The skills I do possess aren’t much use. I can see possible futures for only a few days ahead.​

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A messenger rider sought a farrier… in a hamlet with no blacksmith. He rejected what I offered him.​

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I could have insisted – I can really insist – but foresaw no thanks for me in it.​

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So for want of his thanks… and my nail….​

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[Perpetual Man]

The Dictator: Deluded Justification

The world is screwed. Environmentally. Financially. Politically. Screwed.

But there is I.

A freak, disturbed and disturbing. My words ignite repressed sentiment and as one the people rise.

And in rising they die.

Catastrophic population reduction is progression by regression.

I look at the line of people, awaiting sanctification by termination.

I see tears in wide eyes.

Please, shed no tears of gratitude; in death there is salvation, in the end this is love.

 

[Ursa major]

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This challenge has now closed to new entries and the poll is open at the link below:

POLL -- November 2021 75-Word Challenge -- READ FIRST POST!​

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