Here, Have A (Very) Short Story

[poliphilo]

HOT-DIGGETY-DOG

 

It was a test for me and it was a test for him.

 

It went across to his hotdog stand and put it to him straight. He was an average specimen of humanity, with big blackheads on the end of his bulbous nose.

 

“Listen,” I said. “I haven’t eaten for forty days and forty nights and I am in sore need of a hotdog. Unfortunately I don’t have any money. If you let me have one for free the angels will sing for joy.”

 

Perhaps I should also have told him how the angels would feel if he didn’t give me one. But if I had, he would have been acting under duress and the test would have been invalidated.

 

I won’t soil this page by telling you what he said.

That was his part in the test over and he had failed it; now my part began. I could feel the power welling up inside me. If I had chosen I could have had those hotdogs levitate off the counter into my fist.  But I resisted. I knew it would be a betrayal of the power to use it for any selfish end.

 I had striven and I had gained the victory. I turned from the stand in self-negation and perfect humility. The Voice praised me.

 

Then I spun on my heel and proclaimed “To him who shows no mercy, no mercy will be shown.” And I pointed my most powerful finger at the hot dog stand and blew it into itsy-bitsy pieces. 

Comments

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

NICE! You show that axis of evvvveeeeel capitalist hot dog hoarding what it's all about!

When you say powerful finger, I picture a thumb stuck out and not any one actual finger. Funny, isn't it?

I wonder what dakegra pictures as the most powerful finger?

[jenny_evergreen]

For me, it's the ol' pointer that comes to mind.

This felt like a (good!) joke to me, and I laughed at the end.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I wrote it a few years back. A friend was setting me little exercises and this was one of them. I forget what the exercise was exactly; probably "write something about a hot dog stand".

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Tony packs a mighty punch in his writing!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I see it as the index finger- but who knows?

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

I can also see it as the middle finger, though!

The whole thing makes me think of the Gnostic writings of child Jesus running around being bratty and abusive with his Son of God powers.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, those are fun.

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Aren't they?! I love those stories.