Short Fiction: 083125-112525

The tumultuous nature of the Common Stratobulgaris is explained most easily through its sense of smell. As it flies, the pattern of sensitive cells in the olfactory chambers alter in peculiar patterns.

Sometimes random, sometimes ordered, every change leads to a different focus. A sweet smell could immediately shift to foul, and the Stratobulgaris spends most of its existence attempting to stay in the sweeter smells, tossing back and forth to save its sanity, right into the mouth of a four year old who has had too many pixie stix.

 

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