Micro Monday
Make It Painless: A Beginner’s Guide to Transitioning Between Realities
A sci-fi tale of one of your many deaths ahead
Welcome, weary traveler! Your journeys through the universe have brought you to your first death. Congratulations!
For you to be reading this, you must have:
- come from a colony from Earth
- be related by blood to a human
- released your preconceptions about the afterlife
- be irrevocably dying, or dead.
In any case, good news! This is not the end of the line.
You are now in a position to choose one of three outcomes.
- You may choose an insignificant and painless death. You will go to a cool, dark, quiet space to spend your time between lives. You will not have to relive anything you don’t want to. You may dwell in fantasy or dreams.
- You may choose a brilliant, agonizing, and famous death. You will burn for what will seem like a multitude of eons without relief. You will have to relive every mistake or evil deed you ever committed. You will hear the wailing of your loved ones. But next time, you’ll come back as some sort of monarch or president of a people.
- You may choose to immediately reincarnate. Your death will not be painless but your suffering will come to an end. Your head will feel like it is being held underwater while you relive every moment of your last life. A current of electricity will pass through you, and you’ll see your place in the vast scheme of things. Feeling woefully insignificant, you will choose your new life and have to start fresh on all of your learning and experiences.
Please make your choice now.
You have selected: 2.
So you want to become a famous leader, eh? Good for you! Here at Life’s End Incorporated, we work to make every decision the right decision for you.
Before proceeding, please insert credit stick into the drive.
Error: Please insert credit stick into the drive.
Warning: Your session will time out in ***18*** ***years*** if you do not comply.
You have failed to insert a credit stick with adequate funding into the drive. Please select the reason below:
- I do not have adequate funds on my credit stick.
- I cannot reach my credit stick.
- I am already dead.
You have selected: 3.
Welcome weary traveler!
***static***
End session? Y/N
Y.
Goodbye.
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