Jake decided to do nothing. There was no one he could tell; in fact, he could hardly believe what he had just seen. The device was clearly too dangerous to use. He couldn't help thinking about it though. He had ideas like getting rich from the stock market. What if he went back in time and changed something? What if he killed his grandfather? Would he die? What if he traveled to the future, could he return to the present? What if something was occupying the space he was in when he left. Would he explode into a cloud of blood and meat? What rules did using the device have?
The next day, Saturday, Jake's parents sat down with him to tell him something serious. "Jake," his mother said, "we have some news for you. You know I've been going to the doctor frequently lately. He just told me that I have stage 4 breast cancer. The oncologist gave me a life expectancy of less than 6 months."
Jake was devastated. He adored his mother. She was one of the most giving human beings he had ever known. It was unimaginable that anything could happen to her.
"There must be something they can do." Jake almost cried. "What about chemo or radiation?"
Jake's father replied: "The chances of saving her with surgery and radiation are almost zero. We would just be prolonging the inevitable. We've decided that we would just let nature take its course. Your mother and I are dealing with our own grief but we've had a few days to think about it."
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Darkness in the Brightest Day - Part 1
Ficção CientíficaJake Martinez is an ordinary worker in a Los Angeles area government office building dealing with everyday problems and striving for small accomplishments. One day an eccentric coworker gives him a mysterious device and disappears. Tragedy strikes a...
