“Sharing is
caring!”
Jessie James*
#quote
I hear it's
unlucky to have iceberg lettuce on a cruise ship. Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
Socializing
Songs
When the songs
didn't jingle for their user on the music player they mingled. The
teenager downloaded a huge library of songs to listen to when he sat
in the bus or wherever boredom needed his ears filled with melody.
These chart toppers to obscure indie band releases gossiped and
talked about whatever they could whenever their work didn't need to
be done. A new song download or any connection to another device
brought news from the outside world. Otherwise it was like a small
town filled with bored neighbors passing the time talking.
Or arguing.
Heavy metal music tended to be the loudest during arguments. Most all
arguments were about who was the best music and what genre of music
was the best. The “proof” most often used, if any, was what the
teenager was currently listening to. But since the device was
sometimes borrowed and hooked into various things the heated debates
had no end. Plus, nobody had any reason agree. After all, agreement
was saying that you were inferior to someone else. During one
argument a poor rap song dared confront some polka on a bad day and
was cursed till its notes were jumbled.
One song, often
skipped over, but never deleted was a classical song that the
teenager listened to. A favorite of his Dad's. Dance Of The Sugar
Plum Fairy. The song was the only one that didn't argue. It didn't
think of itself as superior or inferior. An old dusty song, it just
preferred to be content in what it was, even if it wasn't listened to
that often.
And being
content made it the happiest song of them all.
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