Fearinox

Let me tell you a story, and this is how is all began: With little Tom Gray, his mind faraway, looking up at his dear old man. Mr. Gray gazed back at his son with concern in both he and Mrs. Gray’s eyes. This was not the first time Tom had tripped. According to him, he had been distracted, but to them it was obvious, his mind was far gone. ‘It was only a little while,’ thought young Tom, ‘I wanted to visit that dream again. No harm there.’ To Tom, it seemed perfectly harmless to daydream.                      &#

Looking down at the hostile, cold buildings of stone, steel and glass that made up the city of Ilfirin, a small smirk crept onto his face. The white walls and colourful rooftops had been torn down during the reconstruction of the city, as he molded it to his ideal. In his eyes, the city was glorious, more powerful than it ever had been. His gaze focused on the reflection of himself in the glass. Cold, silvery eyes stared back at him as he looked at the image of a tall, pale man with long dark tresses. Turning around, his gaze landed on a throne, at the head of  the long table, as memories came flooding back. *********************

A rustle of skirts, a muffled scream, an instance of struggle before silence falls once more. Hush now, my sweet. You have already ruined the surprise by coming in before you were supposed to. And now you have seen the mess before I had the chance to tidy up. Tut tut. That won’t do at all… Wait awhile will you, my dear? I shall be but a moment. Goodness knows what your husband would say if he saw his lovely Persian rugs stained so. Thank heavens he can’t see it right now. Looked quite weary, last I saw him. Pitiful, frail thing, that husband of yours. Couldn’t even bear to make this little sacrifice for the one he cla

This is my last account and I only hope that this will find its way into the right hands. No one was or is supposed to know. We, humans, had an enemy that would forever shadow our steps, every one of us. None could cheat or evade him-Death. Why did the word produce a cold sweat all over us? Why did it send a shiver up our spines? There are many reasons: Fear of pain and suffering, of losing those near and dear, or simply of owning up to all those petty crimes that all of us have done. Over the years, we had advanced in all the fields, from medicine to transportation. But still, our own fickle and short lives held us back from true progres