“Fun for the whole family!”
John
Kramer, Saw*
#quote
Today I juggled jugglers that juggled jugglers who juggled jugglers
juggling magicians that thought they saw jugglers juggling jugglers
that juggled jugglers that saw me juggle. Anyway onto the flash
fiction!
Are You Ready to Become Rock?
A wizard would like to have a word with you. An angry wizard. His
name is Steve. Yeah you cut him off in traffic. He doesn't look like
one of those fancy pointy hated guys. He looks like that angry bald
old man you have to deal with at work just because he walked through
the door. Which is just the kind of man this wizard is. Spiteful at
life from age, his hunched over back, shaking hands and painful
wrinkles. Really what you did didn't matter much. He's taking out the
rage for so many other things out on you. Getting cut off by you on
the road was the last straw on the old wizard's back. And so he
curses you. A petrification curse. All to turn you to stone.
It doesn't feel like anything to become stone. You'd expect tingling
at your ear or pain in a joint from a transformation. Maybe something
like a punch to the gut. Or maybe some ethereal hand ripping your
body apart into something new. But it just happens. A change. One
moment to the next. You haven't noticed it because do you notice your
cells dying and multiplying? But you will start to notice the fact
that you won't get another tomorrow and you won't see loved ones. At
least not really. He decided to make an illusion of loved ones for
you. Curse you with doubt so that when you see a friend or family
member you wonder if you're stone or alive. Who's to say you're not
stone? Who's to say the wizard didn't exist? Who's to say these
aren't just words on a page and this story and you are just a person
trapped in curse?
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