“Drink
responsibly.”
Dionysus* #quote
Today I was testing my Pokemon team on a Pokemon battle simulator
before making it on the real game(take this as a lesson that
everything is on the Internet.) It's still got many gaps and
I'm not sure I'll actually go through the effort of making it since
there's a new Pokemon game on the horizon and it might change the
rules of how tournaments work. It could very well give me many more
or less options. Yeah, video games can have funny balancing and rule
changes as things change and sequels come out. Huh, I can follow this
yet not remember all the rules of football. Maybe if I played it
more. Like shouldn't there be five nickelbacks for every quarterback?
Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Damien And His Climb
Damien didn't cheer. He didn't shout to the sky. He didn't hold up
his arms and say he stood atop the world. All expected behaviors of
someone who climbed Mount Everest. The other mountaineers enjoyed the
view, said their proclamations, congratulated themselves and everyone
else.
But Damien simply stayed silent with snow all over his body and
gear. He'd always been the quiet one on the trip. He kept to himself,
smiling at whatever jokes people said and walking and pulling his
body up the rocks and cliffs with all the other ambitious climbers.
At home Damien dealt with a stressful life. Many responsibilities
running a large company and a divorce ruling that drained him quite
unfairly. Though he didn't care about the money, he took the children
to his side and maintained full custody(the ex-wife couldn't be
bothered). He left the kids only this once to their grandmother to go
on this expedition. He put all the stress into energy to climb the
mighty mountain.
The victory filled his heart. He looked not at the amazing view of
the ground that the mountain provided, but at the same sky his
children would be looking at. He wanted next to climb back down and
tell his children the story of his climb. Damien hoped they would
listen to it and take the stress of their lives and dispel that to
climb their own mountains.
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