[Amano Writing Club] The Incomplete Human | Short-Short

Title: The Unfinished Song

In a town by the sea,
there is a mysterious theater.

There,
the incomplete humanis the only one who can stand on stage.

Perfect people
cannot sing.

One year,
a small musical competition was held in the town.

If you win,
you are awarded an old trophy.

On that cup,
it was engraved:

"Incompleteness is hope."

Everyone who stands on stage
is missing something.

Someone whose singing is a little off-key.
Someone whose dancing is awkward.
Someone who stumbles over their lines.

But when the sea breeze blows,
the songs strangely reach far away.

It is as if
light is leaking out
from the parts that are missing.

When the final song ended,
the audience applauded quietly.

It wasn't clear
who had won.

So the judge smiled and said,

"Everyone."

And the trophy
was placed in the center of the stage,

so that the incomplete people
could sing again.

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