Mar 23, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction, Original Short Story, Uncategorized

PHOTO PROMPT – © Ted Strutz

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Philosophical Realism / Science-Fiction at the end

Out of the Muck
©March 23rd, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

We cannot live without hope.

Throw us in the dirt – we’ll rise.  Throw us in the ocean – we’ll swim.  Feed us rats – we’ll survive.  Toss us down a cliff.  We will cling to every rock, every branch, until we climb back up.

It’s coded into our DNA.  You don’t believe us?  Come, walk through this yard in the heart of the slums.  See that toilet?  What’s in it?  Flowers?

THAT’s who we are.

So, please leave our planet alone.  Go to another one.  We are human.  We WILL triumph.  We WILL prevail.  We are the Masters and Servants of Life.

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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, whom I have dubbed our Fairy Blog-Mother for her unwavering commitment to hosting Friday Fictioneers, an online pow-wow for those of us addicted to writing flash fiction – and for her thoughtful feedback to everyone who posts stories on the photo-prompt de la semaine.  This week’s photo-prompt is by the redoubtable Ted Strutz, an amazing storyteller and thoughtful commentator on others’s posts.

Tags: #Humans will prevail, #Out of the ooze, #Triumph over adversity