Short Fiction: The secret to immortality is found! It's not worth it.
I think it's about time to get some more posts on this blog. There's this great subreddit. /r/writingprompts does exactly what it says on the tin, someone posts a theme and others write a short story based on the theme. I have decided that I will write something from this as often as possible (once a week to begin with). So without further ado.... The secret to immortality is found! It's not worth it. I think back to my own birth. Waking up in a warm tank – an adolescent body, young and strong and fit. I still remembered my previous lives and I was, of course, much more mature (about two centuries more mature) than most other teenagers. I remember the hunt as I searched the city for my old self, following a blip, using satellites to find myself. I remember the old, crumbling apartment – similar to the one I now find myself in – where my old self had gone to... What? To die or to hide? It doesn't matter any more, he died. I shot him. I felt disgust and ...