Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Suspense/Mystery

I woke up with a start, my senses clouded and disoriented. Confusion settled within me, I don’t remember falling asleep. My face, gritty and stiff revealed my situation, I fell asleep while crying. Relieved that I didn’t waste much time trying to figure out my irreverent riddle; I got up and patted, with a sheet in hand, to the bathroom. Without looking at the mirror, I covered the glass with the sheet—I wasn’t ready to face my reflection yet. I got dressed and left my home to go to my studies; without eating. I couldn’t face my parent’s sullen expressions and ghostly appearance. Another avoidance of mine.

At least I’m consistent.

Outside wasn’t much better, people seemed as if they were only shades, memories of the people they wished to be, haunting the life that was never theirs. Though that was the usual, it unnerved me, it always did. 100 years back scientists found how to look into the future using and connecting different neutrons in our brain. Although the breakthrough was amazing, it was also limited and only could predict our death date, which was tattooed on our wrist the moment after we’re born. The Expiration is precise and never at fault. Everything and anything we do is rarely taken for granted and time is never wasted more than necessary. We do everything we want and need to do, and because our Expiration, we plan accordingly.

Regret isn’t an emotion we feel anymore.

It’s used often, without regard for the actual definition. Similar to how ‘starving’ is used in a wealthy home. You can’t ever lengthen your time, we are human after all; but your decisions can shorten it. Disease is no-longer an issue. However stupidity still has a grip on our wasted humanity, or what left of it anyway. It disgusts me how people aren’t people anymore, just walking Expiration dates—an item. What disgusts me even more is that even before The Expiration was created, humanity was already faded from centuries of corrupted power and discrimination; and was only used to protect someone’s ego. Funny how history repeats itself. No-longer are people living without goals. Every second has a meaning and every day is completion. Time was a luxury everyone had now if they used it wisely.

We were living in the darkness of ignorance.

What’s worse is that we thought that we were wise.