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A Challenge of Inspiration III
Use the phrases below in a unique story or poem which begs a rejoinder of some kind from other Prosers. (Credit: Dr;) Responses need not be entered directly into the challenge--feel free to compose your response as a regular post, then put a link to it in the comments of the original piece so we can all find it. One winning original entry and one winning response entry will be blessed with a life-changing $10 prize! Breathe. Just breathe. ______________Here are your challenge phrases: _______________ Feeding frenzy, really pisses me off, juggernaut, various insecurities, popular fallacies, trapping perfection, run red, nothing good can come of this, created from the depths, this damned chair, between time and tears. ____Bon chance, mes amis!
Cover image for post Would You Miss Mosquitos?, by GerardDiLeo

Would You Miss Mosquitos?

Mosquitos. Would you miss 'em?

And malaria, yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue, West Nile, yellow fever? Genetically modifying mosquitos to render them unable to reproduce? Sounds like a good idea.

They're vampires, after all, created from the depths of depraved evolutionary engineering, each a juggernaut of my evening's destruction as I sit in this damned chair, seeing my blood run red, each dire drop miscible between time and tears.

But it really pisses me off.

You can't use genomes in efforts toward trapping perfection. Just one of many popular fallacies. Modify them to discourage their feeding frenzy? You'd sooner modify yourself with a can of DEET.

As a species, we have various insecurities that spill over into our best-laid plans of men. Read your history. Stepping into the newly uncharted genomic strategies is just the latest of many clever--but ultimately tragic--bad ideas. Genetic modification toward extinction?

Nothing good can come from this!

The Jews--would you miss 'em?

Homosexuals--would you miss 'em?

The ethnically disapproved--would you miss 'em?

Gypsies--would you miss 'em?

Catholics, Protestants, Muslims--would you miss 'em?

Your neighbors--would you miss 'em?

Addicts--would you miss 'em?

Ugly people--would you miss 'em?

Teachers--would you miss 'em?

Kardashians--would you miss 'em?