A Creator God's Final Exam, an alchemy experiment gone chaotically right, dreams of a non-existent time, and Thunderlane's curse of the second place. Yes! These are Blue Chameleon VI's Writeoff Contestants for the Prompt: "It Could Have Gone Better"
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying."