Did he make himself disappear? Was he made to? Oh the cliffhanger!

I do feel you could have set the scene a little more, described the cafeteria, the other people – just to build tension, rather than starting with a fairly dramatic outburst and ending euthanasia even more dramatic disappearance…

But still, it’s intriguing as a series starter, and I’ll keep an eye out for where it goes… MH :)

Actually this was meant as a standalone. I like to think that everybody else is just as confused, and that he simply decided to leave and did (physics and social norms be damned!). But I also like how it’s so short and open ended, any number of things could be going on.

That said, your comment intrigues me. In my view, what the reader sees is more important than what the writer intended. With that in mind, I meant to write this as a really quick, gunshot sort of story. I mean, without really describing anything, I bet you thought of a pretty typical cafeteria. A regular, boring place. Then something crazy happens out of nowhere! I’d like to think the speed of the story helps that. This is interesting to me because normally I have problems fitting my stories int 1024 characters because my writing style tends towards the excessive use of commas and adjectives.