Friday Flash Prompt: Bob Dylan Inspires Some (Very) Short Fiction
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"You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free."
Name-Change.
Figurehead.
Origin.
Pseudonym.
Dylan Thomas.
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"So long honey, babe / Where I'm bound, I can't tell / Goodbye's too good a word, babe / So I'll just say fare thee well /I ain't saying you treated me unkind / You could have done better but I don't mind / You just kinda wasted my precious time / But don't think twice, it's all right."

On One's Own.
Carefree.
Footloose.
Unfettered.
Free-Spirited.
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"Ah get born, keep warm / Short pants, romance, learn to dance / Get dressed, get blessed / Try to be a success / Please her, please him, buy gifts / Don't steal, don't lift / Twenty years of schoolin / And they put you on the day shift."
Mixin up the medicine.
Lookin for a new friend.
Girl by the whirlpool.
Maggie comes fleet foot.
The pump don't work.
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"How many roads must a man walk down...."
Cannon Balls.
White Dove.
The Answer.
My Friend.
Tired.
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"Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb."
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