“You shall not
covet they neighbor's wife.”
Giacomo
Casanova* #quote
If space aliens
helped the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids I wonder why they
did. Was it a construction contract? I guess that means space aliens
accept ancient Egyptian currency. Or maybe they like gold too.
Personally I'd like to see the Egyptians and space aliens arguing
over the price of labor and materials. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The
Importance Of Being Ooidal
Ooidal,
meaning egg-shaped, was an obscure word. That meant he was bullied by
all the cool, popular words. The more commonly used words like “I”
were slender and famous for being used so often. Long words that
people knew, like “Inconsequential”, though not used as often
were the big and bad and could through their weight around. Words
with complicated definitions like Evanescent basked in their
intellectual superiority to talk down on others, no matter how
obscure.
But
Ooidal. The other words laughed at him since nothing was really
special about him. People didn't use him when speaking so he wasn't
famous. His definition, merely saying something was “egg-shaped”
was absurdly simple. And he was a short little word that'd easily get
wrecked in a fight with any word with significant mass. He could at
most fight with a more famous word that was smaller and used more
often, like “and”, but that'd show how weak he was.
So
Ooidal felt depressed. He didn't know what to do. That's when one of
the onomatopoeia passed by him, going “Boing! Boing!” as it
bounced along. People loved the onomatopoeia for how fun or dramatic
they could sound. Boing bounced along, making his noise as he moved.
It then crossed Ooidal's mind to think about how he sounded. Ooidal.
Ooidal.
He
sounded kinda funny. Was this something that could make a word
special? He began to think it might be something special. It was
something he had that many other words didn't. Maybe sometime some
people would start saying him because he sounded funny. Ooidal.
Ooidal. It'd be nice to be special.
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