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They said this is how we were to die. They said it would tear us all apart, which no one will even know that we ever existed, boy were they ever wrong. March 23rd 2287 is the day the world changed and became this non existing place I’m at now. Sitting in my living room and remembering looking out the window seeing what I feel is a very dark cloud just spinning faster and faster. I think to myself this looks like a tornado but there was something different, it didn’t draw down to the ground like a tornado does. This cloud I thought, seemed to get bigger and darker and I just couldn’t stop looking at it. What is this phenomenon? All of a sudden there is an alert on the hologram in the living room with the president of the United Nations. …show more content…
The president tells the nations that N.A.S.A has explained it to him, that our planet has collided into a black hole and there is nothing no one can do about it and we are all about to die. So his last instructions to us is to hold our loved ones give them a kiss and say your goodbyes and pray that it’s over fast. The hologram shuts down and there was nothing but silence. I look outside again, now it is more visible and looks even closer and blacker. I have no one to kiss good bye or even say I love to at this point. My mother and father have passed away ten years ago and I never got married or had any children, hell at this point I wished I would have gotten a dog at least. I look into my death now since there is nothing else I can do. I can only describe it as watching the needle go in when the nurse draws the blood, you know they need the blood and there is nothing you can do but watch them take it whether you like it or not. I see it spinning so fast it almost looks slow void of all color eating everything in is vicinity like one huge vacuum. I wonder how long is this going to take. (Crazy even in my impeding death I’m impatient). I …show more content…
Is this heaven? Is this Hell? Why don’t I feel dead? Why am I in this room with all these straps on me fastened to the wall? I start to scream “let me out of here” abruptly walks in a woman she looks just like my mother, so I think yup I must be in heaven since my mother is here. Then this woman starts to speak to me she says: can you hear me? Do you have a name? Why would my mother ask me my name? For god’s sake she gave it to me she should know what it is. She then proceeds to say we found on a rooftop, naked and no identification so do you have a name? I tell her I do my name is Tracy. She then says oh, what an unusual name. My name is Kaliebako I will be taking care of you while you are in our facility. Kaliebako goes on to say to me that I was pretty out of it when I got to the facility. Speaking very strangely and swinging my arms everywhere until they sedated me and strapped me to this what I can only explain as a bed that sits upright with straps. I then told her I have no recollection of any such experience and that only thing I remember is sitting on my couch in Chicago looking out my window as the black hole was devouring everything in sight. The woman looks at me as though I just told her the weirdest thing in the world. Kaliebako asks me where is this Chicago place you speak of , is this on the other side of the river of stars? River of stars? I’ve never heard of a river of stars before and I’m a scientist I think I would know

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