“Peek-a-boo!”
The Lockness
Monster* #quote
Today I went to
the dentist. Had a few seizures in the chair but fortunately nothing
came of it and then were small shakes so when I raised my hand(a cue
worked out beforehand) they pulled out their instruments quickly
enough. They've dealt with crazy squealing kids that move more than a
seizure so I figured it'd be fine.
The Reaper's
End
I'm The Grim
Reaper and I've taken soul after soul into the after life. They
struggle, cry, and sometimes in the worst of cases smile, as I place
my flesh-less hand on them. I don't remember when I started doing my
work, or why I keep doing it. I feel compelled to. It's just what I
do to grab the souls and pull them with me into a door full of light.
I emerge a moment later. I never remember what happens in the door.
It vanishes, and I continue my work out of an inclination like an
itch I must scratch. I've grown numb to any disgust at death after
whatever eons I must have been doing this.
One day though,
after I pulled a child into the door, I saw a skeleton draped in the
same black robe as mine.
He laughed. “I
never thought I would see shock expressed on the face of a skeleton.
Pull up your jaw you look ridiculous,” He spoke calmly as my skull
clattered when I closed my mouth. “It seems you honestly thought
that you worked alone. With all the people in the world were you so
foolish as to think that one person could take them all? Were you
figuring that you'd get to them all eventually?”
If I could I
would have expressed shame in a face I wished I had. “Well, I
dunno, I've gone to different times before, I just thought it was job
over eternity or something.”
“No. Now
enough small talk. Time to go.”
I then felt a
feeling about death I hadn't grown numb to during my work. Fear. I
saw so much death that seeing it stopped disgusting me, but I never
had been confronted with my own. And a Reaper, now that I saw that
others existed, seemed like the only possibility for me.
I yelled to
him, “I don't want to go!”
He laughed
again. “You must know by now that doesn't work.” He approached me
and grabbed me with the same magic touch that I used to paralyze the
souls I took away to the light. Would I now learn what was in the
light if anything at all? The door appeared and he tossed me in.
I'll let you
souls who have yet to be grabbed by a Reaper to find out on your own
what is in the light when you join me. Until then, live happily, as
you have a life better than what mine was.
I'm guessing your trip to the dentist made you feel uncomfortable. Maybe you're just not used to it. Don't worry. Your trips will get better in time, if you start going regularly. What did you get done anyway? Also, The Reaper's End is really interesting. I don't know what your initial thoughts were when you were writing the story, but I think it gave a lesson not to take things for granted. There are other people like us. We don't suffer or celebrate in glee alone and I kinda like that. I enjoyed reading the story. :)
ReplyDeleteLeigh Hamilton @ Arborridge Family Dental