Sunday, 29 June 2014

TIME STORY

 Time by AJ Damian

The gods would know what went on. One by one the younger people turned their black dragon mounted hourglasses knowing exactly how much time they had to live.
It wasn't the gods who ordered this, but the humans who held higher statuses among them. The horrible part was they obeyed without question.

Once the younger ones outlived their usefulness, they turned over their hourglasses obediently, not even saying goodbye to their parents, friends or work colleagues. They just died when the dust in the hourglass swirled round and cracked the glass bowl at the bottom, spilling out.  It invaded their mouths and choked them to death. Tay-u stared at his hourglass, fingers steepled, he decided not to obey, he broke one of the ultimate laws - making a bond with another. This other being a man meant he had a connection of love and he had long since decided not to turn the hourglass. He meant to live a while longer even before the robots would come to destroy their resolve.

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