La petite mort (The Little Death)

The Little Death

She's called Death. She's the death. She carries people into a deep sleep in a breath, too deep she said. She's sad, she's fed up and would like it change.

Death has a friend, he is called Life. Life has a lot of living beings but he grows and they age and after a while when they are too old, Life gets bored and give them to Dead. She is very happy to receive lots of beautiful humans or animals but they are too damaged and do not serve anything so dead is sad because she would like to play and have others friends.

Sometimes she borrows one or two new humans at Life but she breaks them and Life gives them her unhappy. She doesn't do it on purpose, she's sorry every time but Life reproaches her each time:

- Stop taking my humains. They Don't like you and you break them each time ! It piss me off, do not take me the new, they are Young and I almost did not play with them!

She is sad and sorry but she starts from time to time and the same speech over and over again. She doesn't lose hope.

Life is perplexed:

- Why do you takes Always the humans and never the plants ?

- Plants are not interesting, they do not move, it bores me that's all. Then replied the little Death.

- You are wicked, they are beautiful and have full of colors! Said Life.

- When you give them to me, they are all damaged and are no longer beautiful at all !

- So take the animals ! Then retorts life.

- They are not as interesting as your humans. You're not going to change my mind. Ended then dead and goes.

The years pass and nothing has changed apart from the number of humans that the little death to recovered. She always gets them as broken and continues to complain at Life who doesn't care.

But by dint of observing humans, Death posed her a question. A very good question and a day she was arguing with Life so she asked him:

- Why do humans prefer you to me?!

Life looked at her and answered her without hesitation:

-Simply because I am a beautiful lie and you a sad reality.

END

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I'm sorry this isn't a long story. I hope the next one will be more long in the future.