99 word prompt : extinction
April 25, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes exhaustion. Who is exhausted and why? Can you make art of exhaustion? Go where the prompt leads!
If you want to participate, here’s the link: https://carrotranch.com/2019/04/25/april-25-flash-fiction-challenge/
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We run, from church to church, telling our story.
People smirk, as if they know it can’t be true. Then the accusations begin.
“No one bombs a peaceful congregation. What did you do to enrage them?”
“We prayed,” I said. “And they beheaded our children for believing in the wrong religion.”
Still, it gives me no joy to read about another church being bombed, or burned. Exhaustion is our constant companion as we make our way north.
We have lost our family, our home, and tire of arrogant people who will not listen. Perhaps the human race deserves extinction.
A most interesting question. Do we deserve extinction for the way we behave. H.G. Wells things we do in War of the Worlds.
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There are many different viewpoints and all seem to lead to the same conclusion — the scum always rises to the top. Every single time.
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I’m not sure if we deserve extinction but the planet would probably breathe a sigh of relief…
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I wish that the people with ethics could be rid of the psychopaths. But being good-hearted doesn’t work when confronting the Hitler’s and Stalin’s of the world.
Even when we do, finally, elect a president with ethics, the scum is so deeply embedded into the “deep state” that it’s like trying to get roaches out of a house.
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I wonder about this world we life in makes me sad and also angry.
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There are many people in this world who truly want to be of service to others, and love their families. My mom used to say that it only takes one rotten apple to make the entire bushel smell bad. I don’t know if people with good hearts are outnumbered by the “bad apples” or it just seems that way.
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Perhaps we do.
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I admire the runners who still make a message of their loss. Like scum that rises to the top, it’s easy to scrape off and save the batch beneath.
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It is unfortunate that people don’t want to believe horrific reports of genocide. No one truly understood the scope of Hitler’s attempt to eradicate the Jews until Americans began to free the concentration camps. It wasn’t for lack of being told year after year, but an unwillingness to see.
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