Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober Season 2. This is episode 20 for Monday the twentieth of October, 2025.
Small God
by Elizabeth Guilt
The thing you remember about him isn't how he died. It isn't his bass-playing - did he play bass? - or his failed businesses. It certainly isn't the three lawsuits that were pending when his car spun off the road and over the cliff.
You remember the photograph of him, the one that won all the awards.
He holds his bare arms aloft, lasers glancing off his dark skin, dreadlocks swirling around him. You can almost feel the pounding beat, the roar of the crowd.
He stands; a warrior on the speaker stack.
Indomitable.
Powerful.
And that's what you will always remember.
Human memory is a weird and capricious thing. I find it fascinating the way we can sometimes latch onto a single image of a person, or an event, and forget almost every other detail.