Short Stories of the Weird, Wicked and Warped

Two Souls

*****This is not a religious debate story over who is right or wrong. It will contain many different beliefs, including my own. If it offends you to see other beliefs than your own, don't read the story. Any negative remarks will be deleted and reported.*****

Many religions around the world believe in some type of reincarnation. The ancient Greeks believed that there was a fixed amount of souls in heaven and when someone was born, it wasn't a newly created soul but the soul of someone who had died.

Hindus believe that we are born, live, die, and then reborn in a cycle called samsara. The soul can go into anything living, plant, animal, or human-based on the karma of the previous host. Buddhists also believe in samsara but that the soul can choose to be reborn until they reach enlightenment or nirvana.

The Christians believe that there has only been one reincarnated soul, Jesus, that shows his divinity. Judaism says that the body and soul are separate conscious entities that work together to achieve a higher form of perfection and are reincarnated until it has.

My beliefs are a little bit of a mixture of religion and science in the sense that souls are reincarnated because they are made from energy. In science, energy can't be destroyed but changed into a different form. When the body dies, our energy, the soul, is released into the universe and then turned into a new form.

In my case, I was blessed or cursed with two souls depending on how you look at it.

I was born on the 16th of May to a single mom of eight kids and a long history of men. After I was born she was sterilized due to a federal law called The Population Control Act of 2260. It is a regulation on how many children any one person can have. So my mother has nine children and had reached her limit but my father only has three. He can still have six more before he is sterilized.

Each state can subtract how many are allowed but can never increase it. 37 states have lowered the allowed amount of children per person to five. If a person is found to have more than that number, they are executed on the spot, and the extra child(ren) is disposed of. Luckily, my mother lived in a state that still has the limit to nine.

Another part of the act is that any child born had to be tested to see who's soul they had. According to some scientists, the soul didn't manifest until after the six-month mark or as late as a year old. Once it was determined what soul was in the child, depended on what teaching program they were sent to.

Some previous soul owners had set up trust funds for their future host and were the lucky ones that would inherit a lot of money and property. One lucky kid got a whole island in the south pacific, a mega yacht, cars, and a ton of money because he was Steve Jobs reincarnate. Another kid will spend her whole life in prison because it was determined that she was the reincarnate of Lavina Fisher, the first female serial killer in the U.S.

The sex of the host was not a factor in who's soul they got. Male babies could have female souls and vice versa. I think that is one of the reasons for transgender people.

My mother or incubator as I call her, for she was never a real mother to any of her children, now lives in Hawaii with the money that she gets from the government. She never gave us names, we were numbers to her, she let the state gives us names once it was found out who resided inside our bodies.

One, now Kevin is 32, his soul was a tailor and not really known, and was sent to the tailor teaching school. Two, who is now 30, received the name of Nero and was sent to Italy to live with the aristocrats from old Rome. Three is called Elizabeth, the queen, 28, was sent to England to live in Buckingham Palace. Four had the soul of an old prostitute named Mary but she was killed at 24 three years ago by a jealous lover.