Sci-fi story:"REALM OF LIFE" by Marzeb

year written:2019

REALM OF LIFE

I wasn’t sure whether I was alive or dead. I pinched my hand; I felt pain. But it wasn’t enough. I searched for my reflection in the mirror; my reflection stared at me in the mirror. But it wasn’t enough. I saw the clock in the room.

The seconds hand…it was flickering! Maybe the battery is dead but the minute hand was moving like the seconds hand. I saw the outside world through the window. The world was moving faster, that is the time is running fast.

The flickering of seconds hand and the fast world should indicate only one thing…I was in the realm of death.

Well, it wasn’t my first time there and that’s why I checked everything to make sure I was there.

I had a job there to do and it should be finished within five hours. It may sound like a long time but with minutes like seconds I already wasted one hour.

I was in my room. The very place I often wake in the realm of death. I went outside my room and saw my family doing their work faster. They can’t see me.

This realm is like a parallel dimension which is inter woven with our world. The people of this place have normal time which compared to our time is fast. They are synced to this time so that they don’t seem to move fast and can’t see the people of the real world like our people can’t see people of the realm of death.

But I can see both of them which is my advantage and disadvantage. I can differentiate between the people, and people of this realm will think me as one of their own . But the problem is even though I exist in this realm my time is from the other dimension. So I have to do everything faster and get out of here before my life time ends otherwise…I don’t want to think about it.

I went out of my house and saw the world. Believe me; you won’t like to see what I saw because it would give you a lot of head ache. The real world looks faster here but they are not real here. They can go through you! But this place is real for me and it looks normal. When you see the fast one and normal one together, it will make you feel sick and dizzy.

I went along the footpath and walked fast as I could to the building in front of me. I checked my watch. Three hours to go!

I went inside the building and went to the third floor. This building is in this realm so everything looked normal around here. I knocked the room which had the number 301. There was no sound from inside…oh my god! I knocked harder and this time someone opened the door.

It was the one who I came looking for.

“Thank god you are alive” I hugged him.

“Yes I’m alive. Why would you think I am dead?”

“There is no time. You have to come with me now to the real world”

“What are you talking? This is the real world. Are you okay?” He came to touch my forehead with the back of his fingers.

I checked my watch, “Look, you will be dead within two minutes here and if you die here you will be erased out of existence”

“I don’t know what you are talking. But you have to stop it”

“Well you don’t give me a choice” I punched in his face and knocked him down.

One hour more. I took the transporting device from the pocket, attached it to his hand and pressed the button. Now he seemed like a fog and after a while he started to move faster.

I did it. I saw my watch. I was fifteen minutes early. I felt relaxed and pressed the button on my device and everything collapsed around me and I was there in the real world.

 I was in my lab and he was right next to me.

“Oh my god! What happened?” He asked.

“You were stuck in the death realm and thought it was real. You would be dead there ‘cause the normal humans cannot live longer there”

“I remember something about erased out of existence!”

“Well” I chuckled “I made that up to get your attention. We know that if we die here we would go to the death realm and if we die there we would roam around here as spirits”

He looked at the clock above and saw the seconds’ hand moving normally.

“Yes. I am in the real world” He sighed relaxing.

“Yes you are idiot” I smiled.

“It seems like his lab but where is he?” He searched looking around him.

What is he talking? I thought, is he searching for me? But I am right next to him.

And that’s when I saw the glass door near me. Nobody was staring at me. There was only the reflection of him.

There was only one possibility; that I am stuck in the realm of life.

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