Scrubbing away a decade of bad karma is a lot harder than you might think, especially since that bad karma? Yeah, it messes with you. Makes everything harder than it should be. Ruins your best efforts, puts banana peels in your path, and sends drunk drivers veering straight at you. And sometimes I screw up, and I do something that darkens my karma more than it cleans it. Kinda depends, you think about it. I killed a guy who was a real bad guy who did bad things to lots of people. All those people's happiness and relief and safety brightened things up more than killing him darkened it. On the other hand, I rescued a cat that was about to get run over by a taxi. Mangy cur hissed and ran away. Turned out it had rabies and it bit somebody afterward, so saving a cat was worse than killing a man. Just depends. Best I can do is muddle through and watch out for ladders and drunk drivers and check all my belongings twice before I leave the movie theater.


Inspiration: Ida Marie - "Bad Karma"
Story potential: Medium
Notes: Interesting character idea, but not enough here.