“You don't
understand the gravity of the situation.”
Sir Isaac
Newton* #quote
If an owl gets
drunk it starts saying “what?” instead of “who?” Anyway onto
the flash fiction!
How Many
Times Does Lightning Strike?
Lighting
doesn't strike in the same place twice. That is still true. After all
in Barry's backyard it has struck over one hundred times. However in
just a way that nothing lights on fire. Usually the pool is the
victim of the jolt and the concrete around it are fortunately not
flammable enough. The charge hitting the pool also peaked at a
specific, perfect, point to cause minimal damage. All the lighting
strikes worked that way. No one believed Barry that his backyard had
been struck so many times because no physical evidence of damage
remained.
This happened
all by design. Poor Barry made an unfortunate enemy of his neighbor.
Awhile back a peculiar fellow bought the house next door. His name
was nigh unpronounceable, almost like a mesh of a few dead languages.
He seemed friendly enough but one sad, sad, day Barry wasn't looking
as he backed out of the driveway and backed into the neighbor's car.
(How very sloppy of Barry to make such a terrible turn to go from one
driveway to the next! Just because he was in a hurry for a meeting is
no excuse!)
Barry soon
learned that his neighbor was a nature god, and that god's hold
grudges. Sure, Barry paid to repair the car. But the god was still
bitter that he lost that car he became so emotionally attached to. So
he's spited Barry with lighting, as a constant way to spook him. His
backyard never damage but constantly struck.
Barry thought
of building a lighting rod, but feared the god would do something
worse. Eventually though the god accidentally backed into Barry's
car. Embarrassed he apologized. From then on the lighting stopped and
beautiful, magic flowers began to appear in Barry's yard.
Even gods
don't like being called hypocrites.
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