“There are
great sign up bonuses.”
The Borg*
#quote
What if echoes
are just the voices of your stalkers? Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The First
Protagonists
The first
protagonists are brothers. Or sisters. Yet siblings but also their
parents but also they are both part one and the same. To ancient
cells that came from one cell that drifted away from the ooze that
life first came from. Since mitosis is one cell becoming two these
two cells can be all those but none of them. In this story our
protagonists will be known as brother and sister, Sam and Sally.
A human
protagonist brings themselves into the mind of the reader through
descriptions of their long, waxy, strawberry-blonde hair. Their short
height and strong stride. Their jade eyes with a strong glare.
The cells Sam
and Sally had no luxury of vivid human features. They floated in the
primordial petri dish of life with blubbery blue bodies. The
biological clockwork within them jostled around as they moved like
meatballs in a plate of spaghetti. However each of these pieces held
their own vibrant color and hue as if someone broke apart a rainbow
and scattered it in them.
Now what of
these protagonists? What could two cells do? They could not make a
romance, save kingdoms, solve a murder mystery, stop an alien
invasion or do any sort of thing that a deep human protagonist could
do.
But they shared
two things with human protagonists. One: They had a goal to fulfill.
To multiply. And Two: They could die.
So Sam and
Sally stood still and gathered through their various celluar
processes the energies needed to create more of their kind. Slowly
but surely they did. However towards the moment of them beginning
their process of multiplication the antagonist makes his appearance.
The large,
tyrannical amoeba. Simple its process and the only reasoning behind
how it chooses its food is whom can be devoured. At this level of
life there is no empathy. The amoeba's body opens like a hand to grab
the cell of choice.
Both Sam and
Sally started their splitting at this time, side by side. Without the
amoeba's presence four cells would arise from Sam and Sally. The
normal result of mitosis. But now one sibling bids another farewell.
The amoeba
wraps around Sam. He is crushed and broken down for the amoeba to eat
molecule by molecule. Sally continues her work of mitosis as this
happens. The antagonist takes long enough to digest Sam that where
Sally once floated over one hundred cells floated. Both Sam and Sally
no longer existed and the amoeba would have a feast. But enough would
live on to multiply the legacy of the protagonists would persevere.
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