Friday, March 27, 2020

CONSTANT REPEAT



Leonard is on, singing Hallelujah in the background. The song is on constant repeat while the hand that would have made it pass is on the floor, dead.  The paramedic surveys the scene and determines the contagion is opioid not Carona. Death is a master with many faces, none of them unique, novel, or new.

© M Durfee
3/27/20 20



This is my 55 for today. If it so pleases you to write one also Link it to Joy at http://versiscape-lifesentences.blogspot.com/2020/03/flash-friday-fiction-55-march-2020.html. Place your own IP address within the comments at Verse Escape and then sit back and kick ass.

The rules are simple. Write anything, short story, poetry, comment; whatever. The only rule is 55 words max in the body of your piece. That would be 55, not a whit more nor less.

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  1. hedgewitchMarch 27, 2020 at 9:30 AM

    This is perfectly honed, and all too true. One death blinds us to another, one plague supersedes yet coexists with all other plagues...and tho death is a commonplace thing that comes to us all, it still remains terrifyingly unique when it's our own time to look it in the eye. Love the Cohen reference. Thanks for adding your 55 words to the pile, Mark, and have a kickass but safe weekend.

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  2. ^.^March 27, 2020 at 11:52 AM

    :) Love cat.

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  3. Carrie Van HornMarch 27, 2020 at 12:53 PM

    So very true, and certainly a subject much on people's minds these days.

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  4. Susie ClevengerMarch 27, 2020 at 4:47 PM

    Yes, all the same faces...Death has grabbed the headlines these days

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  5. JeanMarch 28, 2020 at 2:11 PM

    Dead is dead, no matter reason.

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  6. Other MaryMarch 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM

    Love all the irony. Better than Alanis Morissette any day.

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  7. JeffApril 1, 2020 at 9:22 PM

    Powerful statement with so few words

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So Walking Man I was thinking...

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