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Echo Invictus ([personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted) wrote in [community profile] anythingdrabble2025-09-11 06:15 pm

[Challenge #405: Glamor] Original Fiction: 'Loony'

Title: 'Loony'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Characters: Original
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] drabble_zone and [community profile] vocab_drabbles
Summary: "Painting the town in this time so fraught with anomie?"


"Have you no compunction," the local streetcorner loony demanded of the passersby. "Painting the town in this time so fraught with anomie?"

Those who were closest to him did their best to dodge his gaze. To swiftly make their way further along the street, or to cross it when they needed to. Any who were further off settled for staring at the peculiarly rambling man, feeling themselves to be at a safe distance.

"I am your expergefactor," he declared, continuing his diatribe. "Let go of your illusions, of your pretensions to glamor and elegance! Be ashamed of your vulgar displays!"