The ABCs
Your life, so far, has been confined to a sheet of paper.
Your world is flat. The edges – sharply defined.
To most outsiders, you are nothing but a jumble of lines.
The paper is stark white. You, however, are a deep dark, like a pit. Above you, the sky is black and infinite.
You have waited years for someone to come along and decipher you.
One day, a creature stands above you.
They look as though they could have been born under a very bad sign.
The thing speaks, “What do you see?”
Is it talking to you? Or is it talking to itself? Your flat world ripples with anticipation as it lifts you closer.
The creature ponders over you for hours, days, weeks, months, years.
This
time
is what you have desired.
You know now you will be known.
The creature looks at you again and again and again…then whispers,
“nothingness.”
It has passed the test. You will be known.