Tiny Stories: The Meddler

Popular belief has it that the universe is comprised of atoms. In reality, the universe is actually made up of…

“Faith, my dear, I can assure you that there is not a misogynistic bone in my body. I fully agree that some women are born to lead, just as others are born to follow.”

“And in which category do I fit?”

“I cannot imagine you following a soul.”

“Both perceptive and wise, but you failed to notice one important fact.”

“And what might that be?”

“I am not a woman at all.”

“Don’t be absurd. My eyesight might not be as sharp as in my younger years, but I can see plain as day that you are most certainly a woman.”

“The form is feminine, but I am in fact a Fatum.”

“A what?”

“A sort of supernatural being, born to meddle in the affairs of humankind.”

Some women were born to lead, others to follow, but Faith discovered she wasn’t a woman at all. She was, in fact, a Fatum, a supernatural being born to magically meddle in the affairs of humankind and she was about to accomplish that on a global scale by marrying the leader of the free world.