The Mind Creative March 2014
Then a lone, direct voice said:
"Look ladies and gentleman.
What you behold is the foulest,
ugliest sin formed by man. A
creature so deprived, so beyond
reason, it paid to be locked
away."
Gasps echoed. Women shrieked.
Someone cried "Dear God, what
is that thing!"
Dirty hands rose to tear blinded
eyes. Ten round fingers and a
tarnished silver band brought
focus. The hands explored and
discovered a portly middle and
legs of heft. A head, full haired
but rotund, ended the discovery.
"Look at it ladies and gentleman. Steel your resolve. See it. The
bubble shaped body ending in limbs like stuffed turkeys; the face
of grotesque fat stupidity. Oh, the horror, the madness."
Eyes darted to the fog shrouded crowd and then to the other cages.
Limbs of varying sizes stretched out from between bars: rotund
fingers and delicate legs amid thin hands and portly thighs. Confused
eyes stared and then saw.
A glint of silver split the smoke. A woman's curves stood, arm
stretched out, face obscured by shadows. The light flickered in the
silver; a piece of metal wrapped tight around her finger. Hands lifted
to confused eyes. A ring of silver on fat fingers. Then a smile. The
shiny ring had a twin; a companion to love.
But then the curves shifted in the smoke. The twin silver slid from
her hand and drifted to the floor. Cold filled a wounded heart. The
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