Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Thomas Hobson
(courtesy Wikipedia)
zoe sez the prompt wood is ‘MENU’
(lets hope there’s some clue in the etymology of this four-letter word. “…from Latin minutus “small,” literally “made smaller,” past participle of minuere “to diminish,” (courtesy of Online Etymology Dictionary ) well, thats a big help.
Lets let the mature-adult-wants-to-be-a-writer take the night off and offer the following Six Sentence Story
MENU
“They’re born with free will, yet ambition and the determination necessary to achieve their destiny are left as un-formed potential they themselves must develop?”
“Yep!” God’s answer, somewhere between laughter and language, sounded to Lucifer just a bit too exuberant.
“It’s like a menu,” being the Almighty, He knew his archangel wouldn’t get the reference, turned and looked at Lucifer; He was aware of how it upset his first-created to have Divine omniscience rubbed in their perfect faces, “You know, when things are identified as being available, but the individual is required to make a choice?”
“Why would you do such a thing,” the Morning Star’s tone was one of simple puzzlement, however his eyes blazed with a far more potent emotion, “I mean you created me and Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, gave us free will and the power to express our potential, yet you’re starting all over again with this man and, what did you call the other one… woe man?”
“‘Woman‘, you know, ’cause she’s, like, from… never mind,” the Almighty’s voice lost its cheerful frivolity and became quieter, nearly sullen, not a good quality, as his archangel knew from experience, “What’s your point, Morning Star?”
Despite the non-metaphoric clouds that gathered around the Creator, the First decided to throw caution to the wind, “It’s like you made us in your image, then, turn around and create these…these ‘humans’ and we’re supposed to exalt them; gotta say I’m not seeing how that makes any sense.”
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Slightly disturbing, but really good as usual! Great use of the cue.
thanks, man
An interesting take on why some angels rebelled.
ty, M
Well there’s a version of it I hadn’t heard before. Definitely a good incorporation of the cue.
thanks for that nod, (good thing one of the characters was God, otherwise, the cue word would not have been plausible in the context of the story)
Creative use of the cue, and much deeper issues than I expected to read for “menu.”
Thanks, Kristi
I agree with Kristi. In fact, I concur with everyone!
Love this one! Z
it has turned into one of my own (favorites) …. you know, you struggle and near-quit and hit it with hammers and say, ‘go ahead, let them laugh’ and then, you’re all, like, ‘hey, I like that one’
Woe man! I wish someone had said that to me before I made my wrong marriage choice!
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