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Very Short Story: One in a Million
Aug. 22nd, 2012 10:21 pm"The most unique man I know tried to perform something that could never be duplicated.
He held it in a building that would be torn down as soon as the show was over. The place was stuffed with cell phone jammers, Faraday cages, EMP generators, and tech I can't describe, to the point it disturbed passing airplanes.
"Only ten people were invited to the show. All of them were strip-searched and cavity-searched for recording devices on entry. Their clothes were confiscated and not returned until after the show.
"The performance lasted ten minutes. My friend sang one song, playing instruments nobody had ever seen before, which he'd made himself. He destroyed each one as soon as he didn't need them again. Some of the sounds he made by ripping out his own teeth or breaking his own bones. It probably wasn't a GOOD song, but it was definitely one of a kind.
"And at its conclusion, he set off the dynamite belt around his waist. He was the only one who could ever perform that song, and it would never be sung again.
"Two hours later, it was #37 on the charts, the YouTube video had 35,000 hits, and there were three parodies of it up.
"Nothing is unique anymore. If you're one in a million, there are seven thousand of you."
He held it in a building that would be torn down as soon as the show was over. The place was stuffed with cell phone jammers, Faraday cages, EMP generators, and tech I can't describe, to the point it disturbed passing airplanes.
"Only ten people were invited to the show. All of them were strip-searched and cavity-searched for recording devices on entry. Their clothes were confiscated and not returned until after the show.
"The performance lasted ten minutes. My friend sang one song, playing instruments nobody had ever seen before, which he'd made himself. He destroyed each one as soon as he didn't need them again. Some of the sounds he made by ripping out his own teeth or breaking his own bones. It probably wasn't a GOOD song, but it was definitely one of a kind.
"And at its conclusion, he set off the dynamite belt around his waist. He was the only one who could ever perform that song, and it would never be sung again.
"Two hours later, it was #37 on the charts, the YouTube video had 35,000 hits, and there were three parodies of it up.
"Nothing is unique anymore. If you're one in a million, there are seven thousand of you."
