The Plot Thickens Featuring The Creature That Walks on Four Legs in the Morning, Two Legs at Noon, & Three in the Evening

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The Plot Thickens Featuring The Creature That Walks on Four Legs in the Morning, Two Legs at Noon, & Three in the Evening

I think I saw this on an episode of Jerry Springer, as well.

I have decided to approach this challenge in a different way than most. I am trying to make my entries a reverse challenge to the reader by asking them to guess what story my plot summary is about.


CREATION INFORMATION

  1. Medium: Writing – Flash Fiction, Summary.
  2. Tools: Microsoft Word, My Brain/Imagination, and this book.
  3. Topic: Summary.


BUBBLE HISTORY

  1. 07/24/08 – Entry to Flash Fiction’s July 2nd Challenge

 

The Plot Thickens Featuring The Creature That Walks on Four Legs in the Morning, Two Legs at Noon, & Three in the Evening belongs to the following groups:

All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Astrology, FAN FRENZY, Flash Fiction, Myths, Legends and Fairytales, Practising the Dark Arts, The Word Tree and WMG

A prideful young man hears rumors that he is adopted and goes to see a psychic, who tells him that he’ll kill his father and marry his mother. This really grosses him out, so he leaves.

Road rage ensues and he kills a man. Then, a large bully makes him solve a riddle, or else…! His guess is correct: “Man.” The city makes him their leader and he marries the wife of the previous leader (who was recently murdered). Vowing to bring the murderer to justice, he discovers that it was his father he had killed and his mother he had married.

Upon discovering this, his mother/wife hangs herself and he uses her brooch to gouge his eyes out. Now he is no longer metaphorically blind, but is actually blind.

The moral: Irony and Fate – two bitches NOT to mess with.

What story am I?

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

© Copyright Brian Jaime and bchrsidesigns, 2008. All Rights Reserved.

  • bchrisdesigns

    bchrisdesigns

    MS Word Count = 150 exactly.

  • Miri

    Miri

    very good moral ;-)!

  • bchrisdesigns replied

    Thanks! This is my favorite of the classic tragedies… it is so wrong!

  • jacobea

    jacobea

    Interesting way of getting morality across. Good, though :)

  • sweetscent62

    sweetscent62

    Two bitches it’s impossible to mess with…... Irony and Fate. That’s life hey Bri?! great writing Brian : ) Wen x

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