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Just a series of short stories I've felt like writing, there is no particular pattern to these stories just the fact that all of them were written on a whim.
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Chapter 1 - Story 1 - Immortal

I remember It clearly, how could I not?

I was born that day.

The warm walls that had encased me all those years suddenly disappeared replaced by a feeling of emptiness exactly as I feel now.

following that I heard.

I heard louder than ever before, It was painful at first but I got used to it.

I couldn't help but cry, it was the first time I did.

Years passed and I was no longer a baby.

I was a child, my parents took me to a place, with others like me other childs.

A place to learn, to study, to grow, and that I did.

I grew learnt studied all for the promise of a later comfortable life, a promise made by my parents, a promise I looked forward to seeing come true.

Time passed yet again I was no longer a child but a young man.

It was an odd time for me, my body was changing, growing faster than It ever has before.

Bodily functions that I didn't know I had begun awakening, I was afraid so I did as I always have.

I learnt that this process of growth was normal, it was a trial all humans must go through to become an adult but I felt that there was something wrong, always did.

In the end I ignored my instincts and placed my faith in my parents.

Time passed I am a successful surgeon with beautiful wife and three children, it was during this period of my life that I experienced bliss but nothing good ever lasts.

I grew together with my family, or at least I was supposed to.

My children, they grew had families of their own.

My Wife grew old, body functions slowly stopped working.

That's when I knew something Is wrong, they grew, my family grew, without me.

They aged while I remained still as though my body, that was supposed to age as they were, was frozen in time.

I was ecstatic, after all who hasn't dreamed of becoming immortal at least once? I began having delusions as though I were God's chosen, that god had chosen to bestow his gift of eternal life upon me.

I moved to another country began enjoying my life. I went to Casino's earned millions, maybe billions of dollars, my success seemed to be inflating my ego.

I returned a couple years later to find my family

It was 80 years after my birth, that I had begun to realize, this isn't a gift.

I returned home to find to find my wife in a grave, my children had children, some even had children of their own.

My children started looking at me with greed, as though they were waiting to take all the money I left behind.

It made me angry, so I left again.

this time I had money to waste, money that would last a life time.

I travelled the the entire planet eventually leaving my footprints on all known places across the globe.

After I had seen all there is to see I returned, only to see a sickly old man who claimed to be my great grandson.

I realized then my immediate family, my children and my grandchildren had all been washed away by the river of time. only I remained It was lonely, incredibly so. I wanted it to end, my life to end. but I persisted.

Time passed more my mentality changed. I no longer cared for anything, my blood that had continued to be passed on had long lost all connection it had to me. the world I grew up in changed no longer filled with the cars I remember but cars without wheels that hover above the ground metal abominations that appear to be mimicking humans now wander as well.

I am detached, I no longer consider this place, this planet my home. The option to switch to another emerged long ago too, but I remained with the decayed corpses of my family, and I shall remain with the till the end of time.

Now word of a planet destroying asteroid has spread around, humans have no choice but to move they say, but I persisted.

I refused to move no matter how much the beg me I refuse.

I will remain with them till the end of time, or the end of me, whichever comes first.

Standing here the asteroid is as clear as day. The light from the sun shines off the asteroid making it seem as though it was god's judgment, yet I persisted.

I feel a heat, I close my eyes and hear a bang, the noise as loud as it had been when I heard for the first time.

Pain followed closely as though it were a predator and, I, its prey.

Soon, after all that has passed I feel it again the feeling during my first day the feeling of emptiness. The feeling of losing my planets warmth.

Opening my eyes now I see my situation, I'm afloat among the stars and have been floating for years so many that I have long lost count.