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The wheel stood since the beginning. Dense, epic, and ancient before time, the world grew up around it. The center of everything, really: the halo of clear white sky, the arc of history, cultivation, and community. The entire enterprise.
Over time, we disremembered. It’s centrality lost and it’s soul objectified, our revere faded first to respect, then acceptance, then finally disregard. It became a relic, then a monument, a sculpture, then a toy. A plaything for children.
Until the day it turned.
Then everything we’d forgotten came crashing back.
Written for Friday Fictioneers organized by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. 100 words. Photo prompt.To see other’s responses to the prompt go here.
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast
I am certain I the booming of that “tock”. Fantastic commentary on complacency, on its effect on humanity.
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Thank you Magaly! I’m so glad it resonated.
Nice pun. I’m glad you got the idea, even thought I seem to have lost a word between “I” and “the”. LOL!
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How often things because almost nothing… Guess not in this case!
It may seem like nothing now…
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Great title. I like how you set up the tension; I could tell that the people would pay a price for forgetting, and that last line really drives it home. Nice take on the prompt, too; I have no idea what that object is, so it makes perfect sense that its meaning has been lost to time.
Thank you Joy. I really appreciate your thoughtful reading.
Nicely written, with a great build up.
Thank you!
This made me think of Stonehenge.heaven help us if something comes crashing back from that era.
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We tend to forget and disregard so many things close to us, i is easy to lose a grip on a bigger picture. Great story, indeed.
Thank you – I appreciate your reading.
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Wow! You weave your words with ease but care!
Thank you! What a nice compliment!
Nicely paced. I really liked that.
Thank you, Sandra.
Awesome. I can imagine this as a spoken prologue at the beginning of a film. I want to know more!
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Well done tale. Makes a clear point for not taking things for granted.
Thank you, Christine!
I like how this came full circle 😉
Thanks, Dawn!
Dear Carl,
Great title and tightly paced. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, Rochelle!