Circa 2050
“What is it?” his daughter asked, turning her nose up in disgust.
“She’s a pixie,” he replied.
“She’s disfigured”, the little girl said, pointing at the third wing. “She must be evil,” she added, almost spitting the words out
Given the perfect world that they lived in, her repulsion of the image wasn’t surprising, nor was her strong reaction. With a doting smile, he told her, “She’s a three-winged angel, the rarest of them all. Legend says only a lucky few ever catch a glimpse.”
He didn’t have the heart to tell her that she was a mutant experiment, wildly gone askew.
This story is written based on Friday Fictioneers’ photo prompt at the top, hosted by Madison Woods’ blog. Please feel free to critique my attempt at a 100 word story based on a given image. For more stories on this prompt go to: http://madison-woods.com/index-of-stories/092112-2/
On A Polysyllabic Note... 
Interesting that you’ve chosen a perfect world (in whatever sense) for the future. So often the future is dark, rainy and terrible, although it sounds as though intolerance is still around. 🙂
And since there’s intolerance, there’s hope as well.
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Insightful story set in a unique backdrop of an improved society. I love the idea of a mutant experiment gone wrong.
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Thanks a lot for reading and commenting.
Wow…just read yours. Interesting, I must say!
I enjoyed the read. However, I must say that the object of the mutant experiment (“she”) could have referred to either the little girl or the “pixie”. I got picked on about that in a short story once so I tend to notice it now. Actually, either way makes a decent story. I assume it was referring to the little girl.
Scott
Thanks a lot.
You are right, I should have given the girl a name. But then, its also interesting to let the reader form his own interpretations! I like your interpretation of it. 🙂
Certainly!
Scott
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I liked yours. Very touching and well-written.
Thank you. I enjoyed writing this one very much.
dad made a good catch there.
He did, didn’t he?
liked it — I wonder what happens to imperfect people
Thanks! Either they polish themselves to perfection or become nameless creatures, immortalised in books!
I like it much, and the ending felt good to me for some reason. Very well done
Thanks a lot! Yeah, it showed hope!
Cute picture of you Boomie
When you say “perfect world” it makes me think it’s a world that’s been genetically engineered. Kind of a sweet story with a creepy bent. Not sure hope is what it speaks to me. I liked it nonetheless.
I’m 19 on the list.
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Hope comes through the father’s attempt at correcting his daughter’s intolerance as well as protecting her from the imperfections of their so called perfect worlds…..
Will roll over to yours now!
I had wondered if someone would take the experimental / mutant approach – I just couldn’t think of how it would be pulled off. This is nice, though, and the fact that the father is the filter and making it a nice story for his daughter, works really well. Great writing
Thanks so much Brian. I also wanted to bring out the fact that no matter how perfect the world might get….there will still be intolerance and imperfections. How we put a positive spin on it depends on us.
Thanks for opening your door to 2050. I won’t be around in 2050, but seeing what’s happening in the world today, in a way, I’m glad I won’t be.
Dear Heta Shah,
Pixie’s may end up flying in our (future) world via genentic engineering. You are probably not far off with your story,
Aloha,
Doug