Warning: Mature Themes, Disturbing Content
A flash fiction bit based on the prompt "Buckets of Color". May be disturbing to some readers.
Humans are buckets of color. Blues, browns, and greens of the more vibrant eyes, though sometimes they are unnaturally violet or that undefinable hazel. Hair in shades of glossy black with shimmering purple to ephemeral silver-white. Then there’s the skin. Nearly translucent albinos and deepest African black with every imaginable gradation in between. Amazing. And that’s just on the outside. Inside they are even more colorful: pink, spongy lungs, yellow globs of fat, the purple of the underside of some muscles, the green of the gallbladder, tan adrenal glands, pale grey brain tissue, bright white bones, and blue veins filled with that beautiful blood red. There are also the colors inside the insides. Colors one cannot mention in polite company. The only color not well represented in a healthy body is orange though it sometimes comes out in the jaundiced liver or the inflamed pancreas. Yes, humans are buckets of color and I am ready to dip in my brush.
A flash fiction bit based on the prompt "Buckets of Color". May be disturbing to some readers.
Humans are buckets of color. Blues, browns, and greens of the more vibrant eyes, though sometimes they are unnaturally violet or that undefinable hazel. Hair in shades of glossy black with shimmering purple to ephemeral silver-white. Then there’s the skin. Nearly translucent albinos and deepest African black with every imaginable gradation in between. Amazing. And that’s just on the outside. Inside they are even more colorful: pink, spongy lungs, yellow globs of fat, the purple of the underside of some muscles, the green of the gallbladder, tan adrenal glands, pale grey brain tissue, bright white bones, and blue veins filled with that beautiful blood red. There are also the colors inside the insides. Colors one cannot mention in polite company. The only color not well represented in a healthy body is orange though it sometimes comes out in the jaundiced liver or the inflamed pancreas. Yes, humans are buckets of color and I am ready to dip in my brush.
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