The Erased

1. The Warning

Ever get that feeling like you're going crazy? Like you think you see something that's not there, or you remember something that didn't happen, or you feel like you've seen someone you've never met your whole life. Well, we call these symptoms the glitches. We are all written in time. And sometimes the writer makes mistakes. And mistakes are erased. Glitches happen when something is erased or rewritten. Mostly, glitches only happen to small things. But there are some cases, rare, but there are some, in which glitches happen to big things, to people, to us. For example you are speaking but it's not your words, you look in the mirror and it's not your reflection, you're dreaming but it's not your own dream, you're hearing yourself but it's not your voice, you wake up but it's not your room, and a lot other crazy things. If you have experienced any of it, then I need you to picture this.

This world, this universe exactly the way it is.

Everything here is the same, every single thing.

Well, except maybe one. You do not exist in it.

You were born, yes.

You existed, yes.

So you think now I am telling you that you die in this world?

No, goodness grace, no you didn't die.

Confused? You should be.

And if you wanna stay in this world, you better keep on reading because your existence depends on it.

Because you really didn't die, you were erased, deleted, eradicated from the time stream. Slowly, little by little, until no one remembers you and you fade. You disappear.

Now I need you to snap back into reality and carefully lift your head, not too fast, and then look around you. If you see them, run. Run as fast as the wind could take you. Don't worry about your family and friends, they won't remember you anyway. Run to the rest of us. None of us were warned and many of us were erased because we didn't know what to do when we saw them. That's why I wrote this for you, for all of you, for each and every one of you out there in this world so you'll know what you'll have to do when you see them. You'll know where we are. It's in you. You know, you just do. You can find us if we can't find you. And we can find you if you can't find us. Just pray that you won't be found by them before we find you. That'll be nasty.

Lastly, you're probably wondering. Who are 'them' and why are we so scared?

Trust me, you'll know because you'll be scared. And you'll know when you see them.