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PROMPT -© Marie Gail Stratford
Body text word count: 100 words
Genre: Futuristic Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
The Others
©May 13, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
Long ago, something happened. Nobody mentions it. Every full moon night, we young ones emerge from underground, tiptoeing around the fenced-in field, searching.
We are the People. There were others before us … Stranger People. Tall, smooth-pelted, with five-toed feet, they had no bumps on their shoulders, like we do. Then, we came to be.
Today’s different.
A shadow crosses the moon, getting larger. A vessel descends, the hatch opens, and a Being emerges.
I kneel.
My shoulders blossom into wings. My webbed feet become toes. I turn and look at my People.
“Goodbye,” I whisper, and join the Others.
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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for hosting Friday Fictioneers every week, and to Marie Gail Stratford, for the photo prompt!