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Human Cheetah


50 WORD THURSDAY 2019 #12
Word Count: 150

 I effortlessly charged ahead of all you pathetic folks by a good furlong.

The drunk on adrenaline crowd chanted, “Hurry! You'd better HURRY! Hurry!” Like I am some animal performing in a circus. And this from people who can't run a mile without holding their tummies and their stertorous breaths.

Even without looking, I could sense your muscles rippling to get even with me.

Your collective sweat reeked of desperation, despair at fighting a losing battle. It smelled delicious.

I heard one noisy splotch after another on the water on the tracks. How could I even expect you to be noiseless, elegant? For that is a quality for solely this lab-developed human cheetah hybrid to possess. Humans got it right only when they gave me that “Human cheetah” epithet.

And spare me your envy cloaked sportsmanship dripping hugs post my win. It's been a while since that crazy, emaciated scientist...
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