Death doesn't come knocking like a guest but like a thief who comes unannounced and unwelcomed and remain as a landlord who has power over our domain.
When I stumbled upon death, I also thought it was a mishap and an error like eve...
I remember that day as clearly as if it could have happened a few minutes ago. I was a geneticist who was on a team that was working towards unraveling the human beings' genetic makeup. My work involved researching, analysing, testing and designing. I was one of the leading experts in the human genome project(HGP).
I remember that I encountered a particularly difficult crypt and couldn't get my way out of it. So I gathered the outline of my project and went home to work on it as I thought that the change in setting may help me. The first mistake I made that day.
It was the hour of midnight, I was driving my Range Rover. I was navigating my rover through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel.My hometown was in the state of Virginia, specifically Richmond, the capital city. I was born and bred there and also found my bread and butter right in that place. Why I'm telling you this is because since we are in the central part, farther away from the plates of tectonic, we rarely experience a seismic activitiy of high frequency.
Unexpectedly I got an incoming call from my mom that night, so I connected my call to my car's bluetooth and spoke to her via speaker. She was reprimanding me for blowing off on them for last sunday's supper. So as usual I turned my hearing aids off as I always would during her monologues. A terrible thing to do while driving, I know but since my brain was just a hop, a skip and a jump from being completely shut down, I think I can get an allowance just this once. The second mistake I made that day.
When all of a sudden the old mustang on my front took a sudden left to the side. Which was a very stupid thing to do since they smashed right into the side walls of the tunnel the next moment. I swore as I hit the break but I realized it was already too late as I saw the huge fissure that was forming on the ground within a splitting distance.
And the crack was rapidly growing in length. In a split second, I recognized what was happening, it was an earthquake. I saw something in my sideway mirror that made my blood freeze. A bulky truck that had an icon in black which I discerned as the design of a drop of liquid was coming straight towards the rear of my car. I was aboslutely sure that It was not carrying water .
I have heard that in the moment of your death, your life will flash before your eyes. But nothing of that sort happened to me. I don't even exactly remember at what point I died. I was not sure if I was already dead or in the process of dying since in 30 seconds my brain was overcome by carbon-dioxide and I lost consciousness, dead to the world. Small mercies I guess, as I know my death would have been horrific and painful. But I know it would have been even more painful for my mom who was still on the line to hear everything.
Author's note : - I wrote this story out of boredom so I'm not sure if it's going to be good or if I'm going to come up with a sounding plot or not. But anyway I'll try.... For once in my life to finish a book! 😄😅😘
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