Very Thoughtful!
-The Lone Writer Hath Returned!

Hmm. See, this is why I like Ficlets. Have you tried making fun of your own cliche ideas? I do that sometimes.

LoA

poetic and fun to read. I love love love it when I read fresh, well written metaphors!—namely the one about your insubstantial ideas being like inadequate bodies, parts with no flesh and so forth. Very intelligent, crafty ficlet.

Of course, if one subscribes to the idea that human creativity is a sort of very complex pseudorandom number generation algorithm, all you need to do is throw some hallucinogens into the mix and it stops being trash.