“Pull my
finger.”
Miss
Manners* #quote
I've heard
heavy metal, but what about light metal? Or medium metal? Or diet
metal? It's not as easy to find those. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The
Sculptor's Pinocchio
Geppetto got
Pinocchio and Jennifer got Daniel. But Jennifer was a sculptor who
made a living statue instead of a living puppet like Pinocchio.
Daniel didn't want to be a real boy like the living puppet Pinocchio.
He wanted a brother. A statue's instincts made it not want to be
alone. The statues that are abandoned are the ones that are alone and
out of galleries so Daniel out of his natural needs wanted a brother.
So Jennifer
made a brother and prayed to whatever force gave Daniel life to give
the brother life too. Her wish is granted and a brother is had. But
instincts are instincts and now both Daniel and brother want more
siblings. When Jennifer made another body for a sister for the two
boys the being that gave life to Daniel would have ignored just
Jennifer but all three of them were praying for life for the sister.
The mysterious force gave life to the sister too. The sister wanted a
sibling too.
The family
expanded and expanded as the being always took pity on them when they
begged for their family to grow. Though the fellow people in the
village started to find it strange when Jennifer decided to make
herself a bigger and bigger home so spontaneously. And she used to
sell so many pieces! Now she hoarded them.
One sculptor
named John grew angry when he noticed some clay missing. He thought
that Jennifer had grown so compulsive that she couldn't afford to buy
supplies. He thought she stole his. He looked outside and even saw
someone running off in the distance to her house, which looked more
like a barn, with incredible speed. He barged into Jennifer's home.
“My God.”
He looked at the house to see it filled with the statue children.
“This is what she's been making? And all the stolen clothes and
toys around town...”
“A guest!”
They all shouted. “We've never had a guest!”
“There are
hundreds of them.” John tried to count them but the children
practically stacked on top of each other and climbed on the cabinets
and Jennifer had apparently added a basement that they were pouring
out of.
“Come here!”
The children shouted. “You can stay for dinner!” The children
started to climb on him and drag him into the house.
“No! I just
wanted my clay back!” John tried to fight them off. “Let me go!”
One of the
statue children smiled at them. It was one of the ones dragging his
left leg. “You mean the clay Daniel stole to make our next brother?
Maybe we can name him after you!”
“That
wouldn't work though,” Daniel said as he stood on the kitchen table
and the other children dragged John into the room. “Unless we want
the brother named John Jr. I just wanted John to be our new Dad. Then
again he's a sculptor just like Mom so we can have more and maybe
even better brothers and sisters made!”
John was lifted
up high by the children as they cheered. And at the end of the cheer
the children all the froze in place. The being that gave them life
couldn't let that happen to John and feared what would happen when
both John and Jennifer died so the being pulled the life force from
the statue children.
When Jennifer
returned home from getting food for herself to see the frozen
children and John held up high she dropped to the ground crying.
“You monster.
You did this to them didn't you?” Jennifer screamed while she cried over her
statue children. Meanwhile in a faraway place Pinocchio had just become a
real boy.
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