Macro/Micro Flash Fic Collection Vol 2

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Colossus. The great towering mare of earth and devastation. Once a celebrity who was swarmed wherever she went.

Today the mare who stood as tall as an elephant was bored. She lay on the ground behind her booth lazily propping her head up on a hoof. There had been a couple guests and even a few autographs. But the gray mare just wasn't as popular as she once was.

She sighed. What she was couldn't even be called "popular". She had drifted into obscurity. There wasn't a lot of work for an over-sized pony to do outside monster movies, but the age of films staring giant creatures fighting for the right to destroy cities was over. The age of the "Superhero" had come like a storm. There hadn't been a giant monster movie in five years. And there had yet to be a superhero whose power involved becoming giant. So there was no place for her anymore.

She was an actor with only one real gimmick and the world wasn't interested in that gimmick any more. Her fans had grown and moved on, leaving Colossus alone at her booth which was moving increasingly to the edges of conventions. Soon she probably wouldn't even be able to afford a stand at the smallest cons.

Colossus looked at the tiled floor in front of her stand. No line. No visitors for several minutes. Should she give up on the celebrity thing? Simply admit that her golden days were behind her? The merchandise she had ready to sell... wasn't selling. She hadn't managed to sell a full box of anything in two years. So why did she bother trying anymore?

For her few remaining die-hard fans? Because she didn't want to admit she was irrelevant now? Probably a little bit of both if she was being honest.