campaigner challenge number 2: LAYERS OF IMAGO

The second campaigner challenge starts September 22 and ends October 3. 

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Mine is #158:  LAYERS OF IMAGO

The Challenge is:

Write a blog post in 200 words or less, excluding the title. It can be in any format, whether flash fiction, non-fiction, humorous blog musings, poem, etc. The blog post should:

• include the word "imago" in the title
• include the following 4 random words: "miasma," "lacuna," "oscitate," "synchronicity,"

If you want to give yourself an added challenge (optional and included in the word count), make reference to a mirror in your post.

For those who want an even greater challenge (optional), make your post 200 words EXACTLY!

The very first Campaigner's blog I visited had this:

Glossary:
Imago: Insect in its sexually mature adult stage after metamorphosis.
Miasma: Noxious atmosphere.
Lacuna: A gap or space.
Oscitate: Gape or Yawn.
Synchronicity: Events that happen together by chance

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Here's Christy's Entry:

BTW, I ACTUALLY FOLLOWED ALL THE RULES!
 I INCLUDED ALL THE WORDS.
AND I WROTE IT IN EXACTLY 200 WORDS. 
(I'VE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE!!!!!)

LAYERS OF IMAGO

The miasma leaves billions of imago dead. The ground looks snow-covered. I’ve seen pictures of the last snowfall, The Blizzard of 2015, so I can say for certain. The one box I have from the Old Life holds a few of those, kept carefully hidden in the lacuna of my hillside home. If any of the Units found out I hadn’t handed the pictures, mirrors and other mementos over to be burned, I’d be thrown into the Lake of the Dead. I figure the day that happens will be the day of the Trials anyway. 

I believe wholly in synchronicity. Isn’t that what happened the day the Old Life ended? Newspaper clippings in my box tell all about the volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and fires. Articles tell all about when they obliterated three-fourths of the world, leaving only the Few. 

It’s too bad Judgment hadn’t had more common sense on who made up the Few. In my opinion, the majority of us are the most ruthless, barbaric, and greedy of all Livingkind. We adapt to our environment, sure, but what good is that when we kill each other off at a faster rate than the miasma or oscitated earth ever could?