[WP] You are eight years old when you fall into a coma. 70 years later, you unexpectedly awaken, a child in an elderly person’s body. Your parents are dead, and your relatives are nowhere to be found. Your only friend is the nurse who has watched over you for the last 30 years of her career.

You are eight years old when you fall into a coma. 70 years later, you unexpectedly awaken, a child in an elderly person’s body. Your parents are dead, and your relatives are nowhere to be found. Your only friend is the nurse who has watched over you for the last 30 years of her career.

It’s stupid how you wake up

music is playing somewhere and you remember that it’s the ice cream truck and your eyes

flutter open and see a white room

a cascade of vague colors and

your eyes are so tired

your tongue is so stiff and your throat is so dry

you look around slowly and your neck aches and

you recognize the white walls of the hospital

and you must be sick.

there’s a woman at the corner and she’s reading a book and she starts as

who is she

she looks like your aunt but

what did you aunt even look like the memory flies away like

a fish through a wide net and all that leaves is vanilla

“Aunt?” you ask her and her eyes widen and she

drops the book on the ground and it hits the floor with a crash because she’s surprised and you must be sick because you try to

move your hands to hide from the noise and

the hands aren’t yours, they look like

what your grandfather looked like when he was gone and there was a funeral wasn’t there you don’t

remember fishes in a net at your grandfather’s house, lit up like

christmas with police lights after a long trip away

and your father so red faced and

cradling a bottle like a child and

you can hear the ice cream truck but she’s

not your aunt, no, your aunt is

a nurse and

“Can…” you trail off with your voice broken a thousand times “Ice cream?” You ask.

The woman pauses, stares at you for a long moment. She’s older than your mother and she

stares back at you and then slowly nods her eyes full of tears hot and running and strange

“Yes,” she says “we can get ice cream.”

and it’s hot on your tongue and the memories swim like fishes through the net your grandfather had like your mother swam away and left you with your father and you don’t remember your aunt but you taste vanilla

you must be sick to be in the hospital with hands that aren’t yours and a woman crying at your bed

[WP] You wake up in a destroyed underground lab after 5,000 years of cryogenic stasis. When you reach the surface, you find that the race that replaced humans views you as a hyperintelligent and highly dangerous Eldritch Abomination.
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit.