Memento Mori, a sci-fi short story.
Memento Mori, a sci-fi short story.
"Memento Mori" a Sci-Fi short Story
G hated his job. He didn't even try to hide this fact as he aswered the old woman for the fourth time.
-"Yes, ma'am. You'll die along with the whole damm universe. What is it so hard for you to understand? You want it?, you sign it and let's call it a day and I can storm back to my hole because we're closing right now."
The old woman, looked at the shiny display on G's desk and then looked at G with a frown. G looked back at her and lifted a finger pointing at the LED clock over his head.
-" Four seconds, three, two...", said G.
-"All right, dammit!. Where do I sign up?", the old woman said, lifting her hands in annoyance.
G handed the woman the Memento Mori Agency single page contract and pointed at the bottom right corner.
-"Here, ma'am, below the words The Traveler.", said G
The woman took her pen and signed the paper very slowly.
-"You said I'll be launched tomorrow?", she said, focused in her writing.
G rolled up his eyes and took a deep breath.
-"Again, we put you in a hell of a rocket and shoot that thing to the damm Raley Port Station. Then you enter the traveller pod that will go to the damm black hole with all the others damm traveller pods. Have you finished?", G took the paper from the woman's hands and tried to read the signature.
The woman took the paper back annoyed.
-"I'm not done yet!"
-"Ok, ok. Take your time. Once you're up there you'll have a week of food and water and air and stuff but you won't actually last that much."
-"Yeah, I know", said the woman admiring her work. "That's it".
G took the paper and lifted against the vertical scanner screen over beside his desk.
-"And don't touch anything. Those time controls are hard to understand. If you get too close to the black hole things will start to go faster and faster and you might miss the end of the cosmos. We don't want that, right?", said G staring at her as she was a little girl.
The scanner came to live and registered the contract.
-"Good.", G stood up and took a deep breath.
-" What now?", the woman stood up too.
-"Now? Now you are.. mmm.. officially ... mmm...a Traveller from the Memento Mori Agency. Welcome old lady to the end of the Universe"
G hated his job. He didn't even try to hide this fact as he aswered the old woman for the fourth time.
-"Yes, ma'am. You'll die along with the whole damm universe. What is it so hard for you to understand? You want it?, you sign it and let's call it a day and I can storm back to my hole because we're closing right now."
The old woman, looked at the shiny display on G's desk and then looked at G with a frown. G looked back at her and lifted a finger pointing at the LED clock over his head.
-" Four seconds, three, two...", said G.
-"All right, dammit!. Where do I sign up?", the old woman said, lifting her hands in annoyance.
G handed the woman the Memento Mori Agency single page contract and pointed at the bottom right corner.
-"Here, ma'am, below the words The Traveler.", said G
The woman took her pen and signed the paper very slowly.
-"You said I'll be launched tomorrow?", she said, focused in her writing.
G rolled up his eyes and took a deep breath.
-"Again, we put you in a hell of a rocket and shoot that thing to the damm Raley Port Station. Then you enter the traveller pod that will go to the damm black hole with all the others damm traveller pods. Have you finished?", G took the paper from the woman's hands and tried to read the signature.
The woman took the paper back annoyed.
-"I'm not done yet!"
-"Ok, ok. Take your time. Once you're up there you'll have a week of food and water and air and stuff but you won't actually last that much."
-"Yeah, I know", said the woman admiring her work. "That's it".
G took the paper and lifted against the vertical scanner screen over beside his desk.
-"And don't touch anything. Those time controls are hard to understand. If you get too close to the black hole things will start to go faster and faster and you might miss the end of the cosmos. We don't want that, right?", said G staring at her as she was a little girl.
The scanner came to live and registered the contract.
-"Good.", G stood up and took a deep breath.
-" What now?", the woman stood up too.
-"Now? Now you are.. mmm.. officially ... mmm...a Traveller from the Memento Mori Agency. Welcome old lady to the end of the Universe"
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I really liked this story. I hope you write more short stories! I would love to read more.
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Thanks jillpillbooknerd, I wrote it as it came to me, that's why there's a lot of typos. I hope I'll write some more too.
Thanks again, cheers.
Thanks again, cheers.
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I like this. Are you going to continue this story, or build this world? But you then again I like having questions. This is definitely a cool interaction that you wrote
I'm glad you like it, Sakulimamermaid. I didn't think of developing the world but I guess it might be funny to know some more about G or the Agency or even Travelers in their pods swirling around artificial manmade blackholes in several solar systems. Maybe I should give it a second thought and write more about it.
Thanks for the suggestion. Cheers.
Thanks for the suggestion. Cheers.
