Short Story

A Fleeting Dream

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for OLWG #423.
The prompts are below.
This is my story.

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Joshua stumbled into the Back Alley Weight Loss & Hair Restoration Clinic. His once-charming demeanor was now twisted into something sinister and grotesque. The receptionist gasped as he approached, his gaunt face covered in patches of coarse hair.

“You can keep believing I’m just a man, baby, but you’d only be lying to yourself” he whispered, a shiver running down her spine.

Dr. Lloyd, a seasoned dietician/cosmetician, emerged from the back, his eyes wide in disbelief. “Joshua! Good God, man! What’s happened to you?”

“What’s happened to me? It’s you! You and that tainted mounjaro you gave me!” Joshua answered, his voice low and gravelly, “It’s changed me. I’ve become something else, something horrid.” He glanced at his reflection in the glass, his hollow eyes betraying the terror within.

Dr. Lloyd held his gaze, aware of the stories – the urban legends whispered among the townsfolk about the dangers of diet pills laced with dark magic. “You need help. We can…..”

“No, doctor! We are not doing anything!” Joshua interrupted, his voice rising. “I feel the pull of the pale moonlight. I answer the call of Lupus!” Panic surged in the doctor’s chest as Joshua’s shadow seemed to stretch like a giant claw across the floor.

“I’m not human anymore,” Joshua cried, his voice a haunting melody. “I crave flesh, blood, darkness…..”

Dr. Lloyd knew the truth: redemption was a fleeting dream. As the light of the moon spilled through the window, he realized this transformation could never be undone. Joshua loomed over him, a crazed man-beast. From his pocket, the doctor drew a revolver, shooting Joshua in the heart. With a howl that pierced the still night air, he fell to the floor, his metamorphosis complete.

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Here are our prompts: 1) I can tell you the truth, or…; 2) those drugs that keep you thin; 3) I sing to the moon like my brother the wolf. We can use one prompt, two, all three or none at all. It doesn’t matter; we just need to be creative.

This is “I’m A Werewolf, Baby” by The Tragically Hip

OLWG# 423- A Too-Short Story- A Letter to My Professor

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41 thoughts on “A Fleeting Dream”

  3. Hubby and I have received texts about the recent approval of a weight loss drug on the NHS, then not to contact the surgery for it as there are certain conditions to be met, and acceptance will be small! Talking to friends, it appears they have also received this text!!!!

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        1. One of my family members is taking Ozempic and has lost an incredible amount of weight. All the women who work in the hair salon I go to are on it. My family member said it’s expensive and the side effects are awful. I could be wrong, but I think once you start Ozempic, you’re on for life.

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          1. One of the movies that shaped my childhood. Wolfman and The Mummy. I would hid behind a chair and peek out. I never understood how folks could be caught by a bumbling shuffling mummy when they could run? I thought the Wolfman looked excellent with his coiffed hair, did Warren.

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            1. Hahaha! Good point! Those movies were terrifying back then. Dracula was another one; I made sure I wore my cross at all times! They are so tame in comparison to movies made today, it’s laughable at times. I can’t watch modern horror flicks; they’re too graphic and gratuitously gruesome.
              Sorry, who’s Warren?

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