I am so excited, only ten minutes to wait before my self-identification ceremony, and I reveal my deepest, innermost self to family and friends.
The superstitious religious dogmas of the past have mostly given way to fact-based science, and mankind has made significant progress in self-understanding and enlightenment.
I am really lucky in having an uncle who received a Doctorate in Body Shaping and Structure from the University of Guelph, so the $2,500,000 cost of my self-identification is free.
Uncle Theodore sat me down and discussed all the surgical procedures needed for self-identification, and I pointed out to him that everything had to be natural, with no synthetics or factory-made parts.
We spent weeks together researching the appropriate parts and I became dizzy from poring through catalogs and following up with field studies to determine the most aesthetic-looking transplants.
I step from behind the curtain, my cloven gazelle hooves burnished, as are the two goat horns protruding from my brows, my monkeys tail gyrates to my movements, and my red skin glows brightly in the lights as I turn to my family and proclaim, “I self identify as the devil”.
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Too cool! Wonderful Six!
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Thank you, for the kind words, Susan.
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Inspired stuff. Now all you have to do is provide us with the appropriate pronouns for referring to the various self-identified spiritual and ‘mythological’ identities if we are to be truly woke to the relevant diversities. 😉
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That sounds like another story in the making, Doug.
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Looking forward to it immensely. 🙂
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I rather think, sir, that post has already been filled multiple times by our ‘elected representatives’ in several western ‘democracies’.
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Ha,ha. Can’t see anything wrong with that statement, ceayr.
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Sign of the times 😀
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You have that right, Spira.
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Fun post. This is a most excellent example of what I enjoy about flash fiction. (Of course, I mourn the passing of the longer forms of fiction and story-telling*)
‘a course, while it’s not difficult to heap the opprobrium on the Prince of Lies, many versions of the story include the name Morningstar… which, from the perspective of all-Creator hints at a bit of sloppiness in setting up the Humankind’s first cast of characters.
*aka I wish I could say as much with such an economy of words. (Our fellow Sixarian, Paul Brad (over at Redneck Latte) is a master of this form of simple, direct story-telling.
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Thanks, Clark. I have to try and get into the longer forms of fiction at some point. Right now I can’t see past the first page………and I agree the Creator was a bit sloppy in setting up humankinds first cast of characters. We definitely have room for improvement.
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Wonderful satire on self identification.
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Thank you, Frank.
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Really well done
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Thanks, UP. It could have gone a number of ways.
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Just in time for Halloween!
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What is it about this time of year, when our thoughts tend to darken. I blame it on the weather.
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And yet, is this who you will want to be in 20 years? That’s one reason i have said no to getting a tattoo, a permanent alteration that may not always fit…
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I have to hand it to you, I did not see that coming! When we think we can behave as God and recreate ourselves, we become devils instead. Great satire in Six.
~ Dora
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Thanks for visiting and commenting, Dora. I’m not against science, I have triplet grandchildren who weighed two lbs each at birth and were three months premature. Fifty years ago they would have died, but they are now thriving teenagers. I do have serious issues with child mutilation in the name of science, as well as views that science is the be-all and end-all. I also like my laptop and WordPress.
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A superb sci-fi horror with a wicked smile! Love this. Be careful what you wish for, eh!
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Thanks for visiting and commenting. Oh yes, he certainly knew what he was wishing for,
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I’ll bet there is someone, somewhere, trying to live this one out
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Yes, Larry, there’s a little of the devil in each of us waiting for the right circumstances to show themselves.
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