Aphelion

A COMPLAINT OF PEACE 2025 I Has our beloved reincarnation of Caligula crossed the Rubicon? Has he submitted his beloved musky horse in our senate as a god? Though no Caesar he, no combatant rank earned by mighty battle, and so General Bone Spurs, a question of power arises: From where and what power...

The mad monkey who would be king
knows not.
A small minded supercilious sarcastic
piece of political inconvenience,
won't feed the starving, homeless
invoking unconstitutional decrees
but wants a parade
oh by-the-way,
the cost is on you and me.
Caligula reincarnate our fate?

I've suggested in previous stories and poem that this solar system is under blockade. If there other space traveling lifeforms, I assume, that they would have tracked our glorious history of love, peace and level headed conceptual ability.

Good story idea until the end. It felt rushed.

Yeah, But your Promethean traitor(s) gave the monkey men the tools needed to be what they are, highly effective killers.

Nice, reminds me of Szymborska. You call it a Flash story. I feel it borders on both that and poetry. I have to go back again. That's a good sign, for me at least. Thanks,
R

This is an interesting one. I wonder what was going on in your mind at the time?
Thanks.

Correction: They originally came form the Abell 520 cluster 811 million parses from here. Most were political exiles some mating with the humanoids and thus creating the dominant life form today.

A good opening for a short or flash story.

I believe this would make a good theme for a flash contest. This question has been presented by the Buddha over 2K years ago among others.

One answer: waking talking star dust.

Good one! What happens when there is a blackout?

REALLY? As long as I've been alive and as the USA is concerned, its always been at war (internally and otherwise). My mother-in-law states the same about Old Japan, always at war with all the young men swept up to the front lines to die. The human ape, its mouth agape, nods its collective heads at t...

Yeah but you forgot the biggest threat, the very virus itself in control of fissionable material and ego.

Are you sure this isn't an outline for a larger story? And by larger I'm also suggesting that the war was an economic conflict covered by this myth. Look at today's war in the Ukraine, the geography, the choke point and a study of ancient trade. You've got the actors.

See poem NOIDS for recipe. It should be in ARCHIVES.

mmmummm good!

RT

Excellent both. Uncanny Miracle is a question I always wondered about, specifically if granted a wish and that would be to be able to cure any one I touched would that person welcome it or resent it. I considered different situations, as well as the one in Greasers Palace. This was short and to the ...