3 July 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2787: flea surgeon

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The phrase "flea surgeon" seems like some thing pulled instantly from a fable story or a child's imagination, however the extra I live on it, the extra layers it starts to carry. Imagine a global so small, so microscopic, that the creatures there wanted their personal physicians. A flea physician, hunched over with precision equipment crafted from fragments of a mosquito's wing, patching up fellow bugs after a fall from a dog's fur or a combat with any other flea over feeding territory. Tiny sutures made from spider silk. Magnifying glass moons illuminating their working rooms.

But stretch the metaphor—maybe "flea physician" is a time period for a person who fixes the tiniest troubles in the largest systems. The individual who sees what others ignore. Someone who's meticulous, invisible, underpaid, and underappreciated. Maybe it's that janitor in a sanatorium who scrubs with such care that infections live away. Maybe it's the girl stitching buttons on uniforms past due at night, making sure a soldier's dignity. Maybe it's you, quietly restoration others at the same time as nobody notices.

A flea physician is a person who chooses to heal even if the sector says the trouble is simply too small to care about. And that makes them powerful. That makes them necessary.

Even the smallest wound can fester. Even the tiniest heartache can develop into silence. But a flea physician—quiet, sharp, deliberate—steps in earlier than the harm spreads.

So the subsequent time you observed your kindness doesn't matter, or your moves are too small to extrade anything, take into account the flea physician. Precision matters. Small matters store massive matters.

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