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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #DestinyGetsLazy

“High five!”
Edward Scissorhands* #quote



Today I traveled to the Middle Of Nowhere. Next time I'll try to remember to get a souvenir for you.


Destiny Gets Lazy

        Entrusted with the fates of people Destiny is a god who determines the course of lives. For eons she sat on her throne and worked her magic and thought long and hard about the cause and effect for every single person. She froze time and arranged the parts of people's souls so they move in just the right ways so their hearts would lead them down the right path.
         Then the world modernized. People became more than hunters and gatherers and society became a mess. Destiny's devotion to her work collapsed around the invention of the long distance communication and when people began to have more free time and they married for love. Manipulating their souls and hearts to move along the path she wanted became more difficult when the people had freedom.
         So she grew lazy and gave up. She now stood at her throne with a bundle of dice and throws it at the ground. The way it falls is how she sends her magic to push the people along. Her job is to make a path for people to follow and random emotional events to tug people fulfill her obligation to guide the populace down some road. “If only the new world wasn't so complicated!” is her excuse as she uses emotional trauma to do her old work for her.
         Though in the modern world many hearts are still too free for Destiny's influence to take them over.

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