“Let me hold
that for you.”
Atlas*
#quote
Today I went to my costuming club. Things happened! That is all
regarding that. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
A Matter Of Division
The genie groaned. “So let me get this straight, you both rubbed
the lamp at the same time.” His gray, misty body floated
above the floor in the middle of a suburban home.
“Yes.” An ex-husband and ex-wife responded angrily for
the third time today. “We cleaned the old antique together.
“Okay...so then...whoever rubs the lamp gets three wishes...”
the genie looked at the angry duo.
The ex-wife huffed and the ex-husband puffed. She said “Well we
don't want any of the same things.”
And the ex-husband added, “You think we got divorced because we
shared interests?”
The genie shrugged his ethereal shoulders. “Well I can't split
three wishes between two people. There's no such thing as half a
wish! Or at least any that have ended well. Every person that has
tried to split their wishes into more, well that never ended well.
You really should just settle and compromise.”
The two glared at the genie. “We grabbed the lamp at the same time
because the object hadn't been disputed in court. It had been
forgotten,” the ex-wife explained. Divorces are never the happiest
of affairs, sometimes become the most heart wrenching of things. It
can even be the moment of someone escaping an abusive relationship.
These two just hated each other. The entire thing built around
mutual spite. They married for themselves, both thinking of the other
as “theirs” in the wrong way and only expecting to take instead
of give. The lawyers hired and the judge had seen many hateful people
in their line of work, but none with the kind of boiling hate like
theirs.
The ex-husband told the genie. “We'll take the partial wish.”
The ex-wife nodded, first thing the two agreed on in quite
awhile(without the law forcing them to agree).
They agreed on something else. To make their wishes separate,
without the other knowing. They both first wishes with their complete
wish for eternal youth. (Though phrased in a way very carefully so
that it wouldn't backfire, they'd learn much from their divorce
lawyers). Next they both wished eternal suffering on the other.
However these were their partial wishes. The only portion of the
wish they got from the genie was “eternal suffering”, so both
ex-husband and ex-wife wandered the world forever suffering in
various ways till the end of time.
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