The Apocalypse (drabble)

Summary

Written for the prompt, "Discount Apocalypse", on July 27, 2017. 100 words.

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"One apocalypse, please," the very polite customer, a lady in a fine dust blue trench coat, requested.

The proprietor went looking through his baubles and artifacts from a hundred million worlds and brought forth the prettiest bauble at last.

"Ah. The knob for the door of creation."

"Well," she said with a smile. "You know what they say."

"All good things come to an end," he agreed.

She paid him a lovely hundred thousand souls, collected by her favorite sirens, after some amount of haggling, then went out to go back to her own world. Time to shut the door.

Versified

1. "One apocalypse, please," the very polite customer, a lady in a fine dust blue trench coat, requested.
2. The proprietor went looking through his baubles and artifacts from a hundred million worlds and brought forth the prettiest bauble at last.
3. "Ah. The knob for the door of creation."
4. "Well," she said with a smile. "You know what they say."
5. "All good things come to an end," he agreed.
6. She paid him a lovely hundred thousand souls, collected by her favorite sirens, after some amount of haggling, then went out to go back to her own world. Time to shut the door.