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Who Was Left?
From #vss365 4 September 2023
Originally from Twitter here.
But the second paragraph felt like it needed some punctuation and a clarification of removing a word.
Editing can be overkill after a while, and sometimes it feels better. Sometimes not. I’m not sure anymore, but here it is.
My updated microfiction:
It wasn’t just the veneer of everything that had changed. It was far beneath, in the bones that shaped every subtle posture of civilisation. Anybody who recognised the spirit of previous times was no longer around — aged, moved on, or forgotten — except for one group.
While the Machines were filling up the cracks of history, these New Creations were like Germanic replication of aberrant philosophies, reconstructing more and more the vestiges of wise dissenters — the Remainders were left with narrow choices.
Either they became a Transplant or a #Brood. Either side was soullessly entrenched and set out to divide up more of the undecided.
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