| Humor Fiction posted January 13, 2025 |
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Nothing has changed after...
A Benign Beginning
by Tom Horonzy
I may not have been more than a bawdy thought, but here I came as I am after Dad impregnated Mom, a fruited plain, for who I am appreciative, but another miraculous birth..? Not a chance, for I am not on par with my celestial brother, yet I'm doing what I can to live with Him in an ethereal heaven.
It ain't as easy as it seemed to be when He could make wine from water, and still violent storms. Has anyone done anything close to Jesus?
Sure, Moses did his thing with the plagues, forcing Pharoah's hand, and later parted the Red Sea. And Annie Sullivan taught Helen Keller (Patty Duke), a blind, deaf-mute, to read and write.
As for my last miracle, it was acing #8 at The Creek, my sixth. But who's counting?
The answer... A computerized word counter, as suggested by the originator of this challenge.
Flash Fiction contest entry
In the beginning, we were all children, tender, kind, and good, but morality takes everyone down a self-serving selected path. This story could have been one chapter of "The Naked City" airing in the late fifties, but I reconstituted it to be as life might be in 2050, so regardless of it seeming non-fiction, it isn't.
The photo is my own daughter, born in '87, so keeping with the story she is now sixty-three!
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and 2 member cents. The photo is my own daughter, born in '87, so keeping with the story she is now sixty-three!
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