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Free Story: You Can’t Fight a Prophecy

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Nicholas C. Rossis

In April, I posted my thousandth post on this blog. To celebrate, I will share here all my short stories. Every couple of weeks, I’ll be posting one story from my celebrated Exciting Destinies series for you to enjoy. With over 30 stories so far, I hope you’ll have lots of fun in the coming months!

This week, it’s You Can’t Fight a Prophecy from You’re In For A Ride.

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You Can’t Fight a Prophecy

I...

Watching TV

Surfing TV
I see
She
Selling products that neither you nor I
Have ever thought to buy.

Flicking channels I see
Another vapid she
Pretty as the picture on a new TV.

I can not decide
Whether to turn over to the other side
Where boys say “mom” in identikit
American voices.

So many “choices”
To sit
And see
On my TV …

No Big brother watching me
Through my TV
Just advertisers selling me things that I
Have no need to buy.

Should I look
At a book
Instead?
Or go to bed
And dream of Hollywood wher...

Ships That Pass In The Night

Earlier today, a colleague who I haden’t seen for a couple of days sat next to me.
“Did you enjoy your leave?” I asked.
“I was working at home earlier in the week, then I was sitting at the other side of the office yesterday. We are like ships that pass in the night”, she replied laughing.

The phrase “ships that pass in the night” has always had a slight ring of melancholy beauty about it for me, and my colleague’s humorous remark caused me to go in search of poems on that theme. Below are 2...

There Was A Young Man Called Paul

There was a young man called Paul
Who danced on my garden wall.
My philosophical friend Jane
Said “I do maintain
That Paul will one day fall.

Overheated

I wonder
Will the thunder
Come today or tomorrow
And will the rain defeat
This heat?

I wish the weather would break
And the rain
Cool my overheated brain.
For the sake
Of this dry earth and me
I desire
This fire
To cease and set me free.

The Beast In Man

I shower
And make myself respectable for the day
But say
Who has the power
To take the beast in man away?

I find
That many are kind
And that I can be kind in return
For man does learn
That it is pleasanter that way,
But say
Who can take the beast in man away?

When I smile
There can be no denial
That people like me that way,
But say
Who can take the beast in man away?

The Utopians say
That there will come a day
When man will not be this way,
But say
Have they not
Also got
Feet of clay?

“The Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce (definition of Conservative)

“Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with
others”.

(Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm 

I Know A Young Lady Called Yvette

I know a young lady called Yvette
Who is a natural brunette.
When she dyed her hair blonde
In my local duck pond
The ducks did very much regret.

When I Die

When I Die
Where will
All these dreams go?
And will I
Be dreaming still?
I do not know.

Does conscience make cowards of us all?

An interesting perspective on Hamlet. “Conscience” may indeed “make cowards of us all”. However, had it not been for Hamlet’s “conscience” (or whatever else stays his hand), we would not have had Shakespeare’s play for Claudious would have met his end shortly after the ghost of his father appeared to Hamlet.

e-Tinkerbell

Hamlet is a loser. He turns out to be completely inadequate to the call to action of his father’s ghost, who wants to be rightfully revenged by his son. Yet, he had accurate...