The Beginning of the End

Science Fiction

Written in response to: "Write a story where the laws of time and space begin to dissolve." as part of Fabulism with Shaelin Bishop.

So, think about it: the law of gravity is that any two objects in space are attracted to each other. Most people don't know that, they believe in the fucking cartoons that say we'd all float if there wasn't gravity, which is bullshit. Even in outerspace there's gravity, beings are just in freefall. Nature and nature's laws though are starting to dissolve since the star known in your generation as the sun/son (the historians have different opinions on which spelling is correct. Perhaps one was British and one was American. God only knows) has starting imploding or maybe exploding into a black hole. Black holes have been around for millenia, but we still don't understand them, even as the sun/son turns into one.  

This means nature and nature's laws are changing or are no more. Don't know which. Fuck. The best way I heard physical natural law and spiritual natural law explained is they're like hubs on a tire. We don't have tires now, but that's a moot/mute point. The point is the hubs would work together to keep the tire attached to the car/kar. So, the law of friction, the law of inertia, the law of acceleration, all physical natural laws are dissolving, becoming less, or reversing. No one knows which yet. Physicists are confused since their formulas no longer work. Even doctors are flustered since anatomy changes when the heart doesn't have to worry about the forces of friction or gravity. Wow, we've all lost all this weight or gained a lot of weight for no reason. There goes Weight Watchers. The black hole is crescendowing or perhaps decrescendowing, not sure. Aeroplanes/Airplanes aren't safe to fly since all natural law is off. This is a problem since we probably have to leave Earth, but if there's no friction or gravity, how can NASA get us out of here? But, that's only the first part of the problem. See, the black hole beginning thing also has fucked with spiritual natural laws like the law of attraction, the law of cause and effect, the law of love, the law of continuity, and all the other laws. This has affected priests, rabbis, and people leading all faiths.  

Other weird shit started happening too, like sunrises, if you could call the thing metamorphising a sun, and sunsets became strange colors. See, here's where shit starts getting weird. Think about a dog/dawg, ok? This animal can hear sounds that are of a higher pitch and lower pitch than homo sapiens. They also have a better sense of smell. But, with the sun/son metamorphing into a black hole, we see the sunrise and sunsets in colors unnamed to people of your time, since you've never seen them. Think about how you'd describe the color red to a person who was blind. Good luck. That's what it's like to describe these colors to you the reader. Then, since the sun/son is metaphorsizing, the northern and southern hemispheres have the same seasons. See, normally, when the northern hemisphere had winter, the southern hemisphere had summer and vice versa. But, with the sun/son changing, it is winter everywhere and the seperation of day and night are no longer, so there's not really time anymore since time was measured based on how often the Earth rotated around itself and the Sun, but considering that now changes on a, if you'll pardon the pun, daily basis, there is no more time, calendars, years, it's just a void. So, saying something like I'll meet you tomorrow at three, doesn' mean anything anymore and the satellites disappeared. Even obstetricians are seeing weird shit like babies being puked out through the mouth. Soon, all ob/gyns will have to get a dental degrees, right? See, the world is fucked, but it wasn't because of war, the ozone, or anything like that, it's because the son/sun is dying. Well, everything dies. Dogs die, humans die, hell, even trees die eventually. But, new seedlings are now growing their roots towards the sky, which doesn't make sense/since, since/sense there are no nutrients in the sky. A black hole, as we understand it is like a nul set. It's a vacuum with nothing inside, or is it? We don't really know. We've only seen them in telescopes and science fiction movies. The Earth also starting warping with the north and south becoming thicker than the middle. Maybe mitosis or myosis, weird shit. Big tidal waves in deserts, like armigedan. We all knew this would happen some day but put it off into the future. Like a bill, eh, we'll deal with it if and when it comes, but now it has and we got no plan, since physicists don't even know what the fuck to do.  

Prayers and meditations have become one and the same. It's like talking to someone who's talking to you at the same time. No one hears anything and nothing makes sense. Jesus becomes Susej, no Satan, but Satin. It makes sense here but sounds like gibbleteegoosh to you, the reader.  

There's no more inertia. We just go in random directions. The other planets are getting closer like Mars and Venus, but we're not drifting toward or away from them. It's more like God has taken out a game of billiards and hit the white ball and the planets and the striped and unstripped balls but make of light foam. Fuck. You don't understand because you aren't here. Up is down, down is up, right is left, left is right, every diagonal is reversed, clocks mean nothing, satellites are bashed, no tv or news, just void. Then, in the split Earth, it feels like the black hole is breathing like the Earth goes away from the black hole, then goes toward the black hole, then away, you get the picture. The air makes sound vibrations seem like aphasia. No one can talk or make sense. The black hole is blinding at times, then dark. We can't see one foot in front of us. Needless to say this is anarchy, some looting occurred, but considering the Earth may be gone in a day or so, who gives a fuck? Then, Earth starts splitting into sections like north and south, then east and west, and then in random divisions, but after, dare I say, a few minutes, it reunites and the mid-section is thick and north and south are thin, which means, I don't know what the fuck it means and neither does anyone else. It just is. All law is gone. Not rules like Thou Shalt Not Kill but laws like if you drop a penny, it'll go down. Or if you think happy things, happy things will happen. This is just the beginning of the end.  Write a story where the laws of time and space begin to dissolve.

So, think about it: the law of gravity is that any two objects in space are attracted to each other. Most people don't know that, they believe in the fucking cartoons that say we'd all float if there wasn't gravity, which is bullshit. Even in outerspace there's gravity, beings are just in freefall. Nature and nature's laws though are starting to dissolve since the star known in your generation as the sun/son (the historians have different opinions on which spelling is correct. Perhaps one was British and one was American. God only knows) has starting imploding or maybe exploding into a black hole. Black holes have been around for millenia, but we still don't understand them, even as the sun/son turns into one.  

This means nature and nature's laws are changing or are no more. Don't know which. Fuck. The best way I heard physical natural law and spiritual natural law explained is they're like hubs on a tire. We don't have tires now, but that's a moot/mute point. The point is the hubs would work together to keep the tire attached to the car/kar. So, the law of friction, the law of inertia, the law of acceleration, all physical natural laws are dissolving, becoming less, or reversing. No one knows which yet. Physicists are confused since their formulas no longer work. Even doctors are flustered since anatomy changes when the heart doesn't have to worry about the forces of friction or gravity. Wow, we've all lost all this weight or gained a lot of weight for no reason. There goes Weight Watchers. The black hole is crescendowing or perhaps decrescendowing, not sure. Aeroplanes/Airplanes aren't safe to fly since all natural law is off. This is a problem since we probably have to leave Earth, but if there's no friction or gravity, how can NASA get us out of here? But, that's only the first part of the problem. See, the black hole beginning thing also has fucked with spiritual natural laws like the law of attraction, the law of cause and effect, the law of love, the law of continuity, and all the other laws. This has affected priests, rabbis, and people leading all faiths.  

Other weird shit started happening too, like sunrises, if you could call the thing metamorphising a sun, and sunsets became strange colors. See, here's where shit starts getting weird. Think about a dog/dawg, ok? This animal can hear sounds that are of a higher pitch and lower pitch than homo sapiens. They also have a better sense of smell. But, with the sun/son metamorphing into a black hole, we see the sunrise and sunsets in colors unnamed to people of your time, since you've never seen them. Think about how you'd describe the color red to a person who was blind. Good luck. That's what it's like to describe these colors to you the reader. Then, since the sun/son is metaphorsizing, the northern and southern hemispheres have the same seasons. See, normally, when the northern hemisphere had winter, the southern hemisphere had summer and vice versa. But, with the sun/son changing, it is winter everywhere and the seperation of day and night are no longer, so there's not really time anymore since time was measured based on how often the Earth rotated around itself and the Sun, but considering that now changes on a, if you'll pardon the pun, daily basis, there is no more time, calendars, years, it's just a void. So, saying something like I'll meet you tomorrow at three, doesn' mean anything anymore and the satellites disappeared. Even obstetricians are seeing weird shit like babies being puked out through the mouth. Soon, all ob/gyns will have to get a dental degrees, right? See, the world is fucked, but it wasn't because of war, the ozone, or anything like that, it's because the son/sun is dying. Well, everything dies. Dogs die, humans die, hell, even trees die eventually. But, new seedlings are now growing their roots towards the sky, which doesn't make sense/since, since/sense there are no nutrients in the sky. A black hole, as we understand it is like a nul set. It's a vacuum with nothing inside, or is it? We don't really know. We've only seen them in telescopes and science fiction movies. The Earth also starting warping with the north and south becoming thicker than the middle. Maybe mitosis or myosis, weird shit. Big tidal waves in deserts, like armigedan. We all knew this would happen some day but put it off into the future. Like a bill, eh, we'll deal with it if and when it comes, but now it has and we got no plan, since physicists don't even know what the fuck to do.  

Prayers and meditations have become one and the same. It's like talking to someone who's talking to you at the same time. No one hears anything and nothing makes sense. Jesus becomes Susej, no Satan, but Satin. It makes sense here but sounds like gibbleteegoosh to you, the reader.  

There's no more inertia. We just go in random directions. The other planets are getting closer like Mars and Venus, but we're not drifting toward or away from them. It's more like God has taken out a game of billiards and hit the white ball and the planets and the striped and unstripped balls but make of light foam. Fuck. You don't understand because you aren't here. Up is down, down is up, right is left, left is right, every diagonal is reversed, clocks mean nothing, satellites are bashed, no tv or news, just void. Then, in the split Earth, it feels like the black hole is breathing like the Earth goes away from the black hole, then goes toward the black hole, then away, you get the picture. The air makes sound vibrations seem like aphasia. No one can talk or make sense. The black hole is blinding at times, then dark. We can't see one foot in front of us. Needless to say this is anarchy, some looting occurred, but considering the Earth may be gone in a day or so, who gives a fuck? Then, Earth starts splitting into sections like north and south, then east and west, and then in random divisions, but after, dare I say, a few minutes, it reunites and the mid-section is thick and north and south are thin, which means, I don't know what the fuck it means and neither does anyone else. It just is. All law is gone. Not rules like Thou Shalt Not Kill but laws like if you drop a penny, it'll go down. Or if you think happy things, happy things will happen. This is just the beginning of the end.  

Posted Feb 24, 2024
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Evee Snow
23:54 Apr 17, 2026

𝐇𝐢,
𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧?
𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
𝐈’𝐦 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚-𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭, 𝐈’𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 (𝐞𝐯𝐞_𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞) 𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭@𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 (𝐞𝐯𝐞_𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞_) 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐭.
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞!
𝐄𝐯𝐞.

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