Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26261031-20151201014907

Lies

It was a Summer Sunday morning. The outdoors smelled of crisp pine, apples and cherry wood. I was drinking my coffee outside as I always do. I was listening to birds chirping and the songs of the wind. I enjoyed my time sitting down when I saw a mirror out of the corner of my eye. I was curious as I had never brought mirror outside. I thought maybe it was from when my friends came over for a party. They got hammered and fell asleep on the grass. I picked up the mirror and looked like something from ancient Japan. I could tell because I had been taking Japanese for about ten years now. It read” “You are living a world of lies. Look into the mirror to see the truth.” I thought in my mind, “I will just go along with this prank someone is pulling on me.”  I looked into the mirror like a goofball with my tongue sticking out and my pupils in different places. Then I realized something.

Parts of my hair that were there were gone, my face was scratched, and my nose was bleeding. The mirror gave me the appearance of one of those zombie apps. I chuckled a bit  and I said out loud, “Good prank!” but no one responded until a voice from the mirror said, “Prank, the only prank that I know of is the world you live in, so let me show you the truth!”

A bright light shone in my face for about thirty seconds until it started to fade away around me. Around me I saw broken down buildings and homes infested with rats. The only buildings not destroyed were chemical plants. It seemed that everything was run by a chemical similar to sulfuric acid as the town stunk of the substance. The sky was dark with smoke and the sun was barely visible. Trees were coved in soot. Corpses were laid across the side walk. Cars were filled with dead bodies. The only people alive were people talking to their missing

limbs.

I came across a disabled man with a missing eye. I proceeded to talk to him as I wanted to understand what was going on. I could tell that man was without a formal education has he did not speak proper English. He had a quiet, dark, and creaky voice. He whispered, “The Russians… They use chemical on us… Russian take over every one… They use chemical… Run city,” coughing up small amounts of blood in between phrases.

Disgusted I walked around the town and found a well-dressed business man. I asked him, the only sane looking person “What is going on? What type of Satan worshiper is running this place?” But unfortunately, he was even more insane. He laughed and with a grin on his face he said. , “Well you seem to be quite the curious one. I’ll tell you. See I am successful, feeding of the chemical business. Everyone who is not successful is left to rot. Their only companions are their missing limbs. They live their lives laying in their own blood using it as their only drinking source. We don’t need to help those failures. Soon they will all be gone, ha ha ha.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I asked the mirror “Why did you take me to this hell hole!” The mirror responded quietly. “I only wanted to show you the truth.” I tried to break the mirror by hitting it with a hammer, but nothing happened. Instead the mirror responded by saying, “You cannot break the truth!” I looked around me and found a vat of the chemical used to run the town. I threw the mirror in the vat. I heard shrieks of horror and then there was silence following a shroud of darkness covering me for about thirty seconds. I heard a long drawn out beep sound. Then I arrived back where I was before. I screamed with one final breath, “This world is a lie!” <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">  <ac_metadata title="My story. I want to know if my story is any good."> </ac_metadata>