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The ridiculous title — a room for one change

A fictional scene about the ridiculous title.

Original flash fiction · Invented characters · Room for play

The rehearsal stopped. Ari put the practical difficulty into words: “A serious-looking drawing receives an unexpected title.” For the first time, everyone was discussing the same thing.

They agreed on one modest experiment: “Compare how the title changes the way you see the picture.” No one called it the final solution. That made beginning possible.

By evening there was a result worth describing, even if it was not the result anyone had expected. They wrote that down too.

Try a question

Which small choice makes the ending different from the beginning?