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Last Days of Men
#WritcoStoryPrompt45
Write a story based on this famous excerpt from The Night Slowly Came by Kate Chopin:
“I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Someone has said it is better to study one man than ten books. I want neither books nor men; they suffer primitive ideals and notions as they race toward an unknown conclusion.”
I watch their future unfold with omnipotent clarity while they wreak dread havoc upon their world. No remorse or sadness do they feel, as they crush all things to dust with their passing. They slash at the mother who gave them life and they strip bare all her raiments in an endless pursuit of power. They strip the soil of nourishment, leaving behind only parched ground where once fertile earth had sustained them. Disinterested, the eyes of man look on as their mother wastes away, her skin dry and cracked, falling from emaciated bones. They scurry about with preconceived notions of importance, and edicts that were writ by them, to assuage themselves and prove to themselves their godlike importance. Self serving, they take no...
Write a story based on this famous excerpt from The Night Slowly Came by Kate Chopin:
“I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Someone has said it is better to study one man than ten books. I want neither books nor men; they suffer primitive ideals and notions as they race toward an unknown conclusion.”
I watch their future unfold with omnipotent clarity while they wreak dread havoc upon their world. No remorse or sadness do they feel, as they crush all things to dust with their passing. They slash at the mother who gave them life and they strip bare all her raiments in an endless pursuit of power. They strip the soil of nourishment, leaving behind only parched ground where once fertile earth had sustained them. Disinterested, the eyes of man look on as their mother wastes away, her skin dry and cracked, falling from emaciated bones. They scurry about with preconceived notions of importance, and edicts that were writ by them, to assuage themselves and prove to themselves their godlike importance. Self serving, they take no...
