Today's #flashfiction The Many Lives Of The Protagonist

“Animals are people too.”

Duck Dynasty* #quote

Today I went to the convention thingie so woo! Much fun was had. Also I've added a link to the facebook page and a doo-dad to share posts through facebook. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Many Lives Of The Protagonist

        Wallace starred in a bestselling novel that filled the bookshelves quickly and jumped off them just as fast. Many, many readers encountered Wallace while their eyes rode the pages. And for every reader a different Wallace emerged.

         The author described Wallace as a beautiful man with silky black hair and soft chocolate skin. The character worked as a lawyer with a fancy suit and tie and professional stride. He smiled softly but never weakly.

         From just this first description a different Wallace emerged. When thinking of the hair each reader had seen different silks through their lives and imagined different applications of it to create a texture of hair. For the blackness of hair, so many blacks existed in the world, the reader could apply any number of the many versions they'd seen on people they'd met or create a new version in their mind. Would the chocolate they thought of to describe his skin be some they recently saw in a commercial or saw in a candy store? Each reader also applied their own concept to create their fancy suits and what it meant for a professional stride. And what to someone was a soft smile or a weak one?

        Then each Wallace for each reader's perception would be born again and again and change again and again. As the novel went on each and every one of his actions changed him and also could be interpreted in many different ways for each reader. The words of the author mutated in the mind of the reader to make it so that no novel made the same protagonist emerge. There was never one Wallace.

        Later the novel became translated into other languages and sold abroad...