A Hero? Or a Gyro?

Man In Top Hat On the Edge of the Frame.

These are trials of the Man in the Top Hat on the Edge of the Frame. People and monsters and heads tried to seduce him with their style. It did not work.

The man was brave. He always said, "No." He did not want anyone's style.

One day, the Prince of the Bad Place, the Evil Man, came from underground and told him to buy his style. The hat man thought about it. He decided to still say, "No."

Then the hat man faced a quandary. Was he good because he had said "No." to evil? Would he be able to say, "Yes." to good if it appeared?

The hat man tore off his own head and shook it around but neither good nor evil came out of it. Saying "No." to everything suggested the presence of a "Yes." but what would that "Yes." look like? The hat man had to know.

As the hat man groped blindly in the dark towards "Yes." he still encountered people and animals and heads asking him to take a part in their style. "No." he said. But now the "No." was hollow and only made him more confused.

A long time passed. The hat man saw lots of weird stuff. He saw a raccoon but it kind of didn't look like a raccoon, you know?

The hat man was so sad. He didn't want to keep saying "No." He wanted to say "Yes." but nothing felt right to say "Yes." to.

The hat man never figured it out. On the day of his funeral, only Santa Claus and some cool birds showed up. Santa said, "Here lies Hat Man; he should have made his own style instead of thinking there was something that he could say 'Yes' to. The only real 'Yes' is creation."

The End.