“You broke my heart.”
Robert Jarvik* #quote
Today I read webcomics on the Internet along with my usual writing
stuff along with giving my mother delectable chocolates for mothers
day. She loved the chocolates and I liked a few of the comics I read.
Good thing about the Internet is it gives a platform for anybody to
try showing their work to the world. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Virtually Nothingness
Y'know I used to play games using the virtual reality tools they
have plugged into my brain now. Some where I would fight towering
dragons while juggling fire in my hands. The programs would use
machine to have your brain see things you couldn't possibly see in
real life. I'd be thinking, “Dave, you're a wizard now.” I could
see a wand in my hand and I would be wearing robes. They would create
vast fields in front of me and I could smell the sweet aroma of their
flowers in the air. So many different adventures or vacations or
other wonderful things in the virtual reality.
But now the virtual reality made me experience nothing. As much of
nothing that the programmers could. I couldn't call it space. Space
has depth. This was even less than that. Normal virtual reality
scenarios requires input to what it will tell your body to see and
experience my brain is being told total nothingness. Not even
blackness or whiteness. Not any intensity of noise. No sensory
information reaches me. I can't even struggle, the machine tells my
brain I have no limbs in this virtual land.
I'm now really not anything but the thoughts in my head and no
outside experience. True, perfect loneliness. I'm starting to bend
and twist my memories and imagination to try and make a reality for
myself only really making myself insane.
Should I be pitied? This is the modern prison cell selected for
murderers like me.
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