VISUAL PROMPT

Submitted by Katelyn Jane

Write a short story where humans are the mythical beings.

They Aren’t Real

You’re trying to tell me that there are beings who occupy three dimensional space and move only forward in linear time? What proof do you have?

Everyone knows that life can’t exist like that. No one could tolerate an existence so concrete and simple. It’s a fairy tale, a myth.

Life exists how we experience it. We scatter forward and backwards in time without any boundary. We can occupy any space that’s available and we fill it completely. If there were beings like the ones in the stories, we would know about them. They could be colonized and filled by us immediately.

Ok, you’ve had an experience beyond what we can explain with our science. You say that you were trapped endlessly in series of prisms reflecting you into yourself, and you solidified briefly. There you were handled by some of these beings who move impossibly slow. They projected you onto a wall and altered your frequencies to make a cube like shape. Are you certain this wasn’t a delusion or hallucination? It’s simply improbable that something like that could exist around us at all times and we wouldn’t be aware.

All of us want to believe in beings greater than ourselves because we can imagine them. Maybe it’s an exercise in our imagination to consider what it could be like to solidify and be in a single place at a time. You’ve always had a vivid imagination, and you’re using it. I commend you for that.

You’ve been pushing yourself so hard lately, extending throughout the entire universe. Of course you’re going to get frazzled. It’s not what anyone could bear to go through. Look for a simpler life. Focus on what’s real and all around you. Don’t try and find figments of fantasy.

Myths exist to explain our day to day lives, to give us rituals with which we can interpret our experiences. Our ancestors believed in these “human beings” because they asked the same kinds of questions that you do. It doesn’t make them real. You have your whole life ahead of you. Let this go. Believe me.

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