Creation Blues

Published in Friday Flash Fiction, April 18, 2025

Photo by Alexei Scutari on Unsplash

The All-Deities Assignment Committee usually took eons to assign new domains to rule over—each member was all knowing, yet reaching a consensus was difficult. Eventually, the committee unanimously agreed that it was time to grant a second chance. The recipient, not the sharpest deity in the drawer, had made a mess of the last assignment. The Committee said, “This time don’t make the creatures impossibly conflicted, filled with love and hate, capable of amazing acts of kindness, and horrific acts of evil. We hated to watch them self-destruct.” The recipient listened carefully, but then proceeded to create human beings.