The Last Question
A person, suffering and abandoned, grapples with pain and the absence of their father before resigning to a quiet emptiness and saying goodbye.
The Last QuestionA Horse with a Broken Leg
Part I Damn it. Where did this rock even come from? Whatever, whatever, it is fine. No, wait. My leg… I think I might have hurt it a little, but it is probably nothing serious. How much damage can a simple rock even cause to my leg? It hurts a bit, but it will pass. It always passes. It is not like …
A Horse with a Broken LegThe Man Crying Over Ice Cream
“Look at that grown man crying over ice cream!" and “look what people choose to be sad about” were two of the comments from the people walking past the man sitting on the ground crying next to the ice cream he had dropped. You’d probably think something similar too if you were there. After all, …
The Man Crying Over Ice CreamThe Castle
“I wonder if life outside is really that terrible?” the soldier thought. For the first time in years, tiny seeds of curiosity about the world outside had begun to take root inside him. He had forgotten that the reason he came here in the first place was to escape from that very world. “No, no, I …
The CastleSisyphus, Crushed Under His Boulder
Sisyphus let out a deep sigh as he watched the boulder he had pushed for years roll back down once again. “Watching it tumble all the way to the bottom each time is definitely harder than pushing it up the hill,” he thought. “No matter how painful it is, at least when the entire weight of the rock …
Sisyphus, Crushed Under His Boulder