Creation (Flash Fiction Fridays #4)

Death loved Life, but he was well aware of the other Greater God’s eccentricities. The last time she had been this enthused about one of her creations, the mortal world had been devastated by honey badgers the size of elephants. To this day, she insisted that the sudden increase in mortal death rates had absolutely nothing to do with her beloved honey badgers and that being ordered to make them smaller was a terrible injustice.

“Look!” Life held up her newest creation. “I call it… the freshwater...