Stories tagged “nothingness”

  • A Cloud of Dust

    As if it wasn’t enough to know everything he’d known was lost to oblivion, another thought hit him: now what? With the Earth gone, where was he to go? What was he to do? He sat back with a sigh. “Just when I thought I’d thought ...

  • More Than Nothing

    There was no floor beneath my feet, a feeling of nothingness enveloped me; no hot, no cold, not even the air that surrounded me. A dark vastness, nothing to see, nothing to feel, not a single sound to be heard. Yet before me I know it’s there. A door...

  • More Than Nothing (part 3)

    I placed my palm to where I think the door still hung, my fingers were oblivious but down my palm I could feel it still. That twinge of cold through my skin. My heart soared knowing that what could my way be out was still here. But I withdrew my hand. ...

  • More Than Nothing (Part 4)

    I leaned against the door gritting my teeth against the pain of my hand. Waiting in the dark as it slowly faded away. There’s a way through. Every door can open even one without lock or key. I pushed against the door, ignoring my fingers. The sur...

  • More Than Nothing (Part 5)

    As I felt the door reform my heart sank, taking my breath with it. Something that was already hard was going to be near impossible now. My whole body cringed in pain; healing from the trauma I brought to it. I couldn’t move either arm. The numbne...