1001 Tales - Freefall
This is the fourth story in The 1001 series. It is an experiment in realtime writing, none of this is pre-conceived or pre-meditated, I want to see how far I can push a story without stopping to build the characters, or to plot out a proper tale. Some are brief, some are long and elaborate.
For the previous stories, go here: 1001 Tales Category
And now…
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Freefall
He stood at the edge of the cliff, heart racing, mind whirling, emotions and memories searing through his mind, screaming like a thousand and one banshees. A blinding kaleidoscope of the past few months twisted and warped, melting, melding, shattering apart and reforming themselves with chaotic speed.
He couldn’t take it. The torment, the pain, the agony. He had lived with it long enough. And he was tired.
He knew there was only one way to end this.
He closed his eyes and jumped.
As he leaped off the cliff, he felt the rush of wind on his face, the gentle caress of the fast moving air, barely ruffling his uncombed hair. He felt his shirt billowing behind him, a vain and selfish attempt at keeping him afloat.
He couldn’t see the bottom, but he knew it was coming, and smiling, he welcomed it.
He hit the water at 90 miles an hour.
Not a splash, not a sound, he just went under, vanishing beneath the cool icy surface.
He felt the water react to his violent intrusion, felt it resist with the echoes of a million noiseless bubbles, just for a split second, before it accepted its fate and came swirling back to cover him in its blackness. It enveloped him, embracing him with the promise of nothingness, embalming him with the gifts of the unknown.
And deep in his heart, he felt it.
The quiet serenity.
Peace, at last.
He was free.
Until the bungee rope yanked him back out of the dark cold water and into the glaring brilliant sun of reality.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I be’d the first!!!
December 4th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
What if there was no bungee rope. Bungee jumping with no string attached…
December 4th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Gosh, all that happened to him (his mind) in the space of a split second?
90miles an hour is suicide. But lemme max on u. Been there, cone that. Use the tshirt as my nightie..
December 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
And 4ths because I’m on a roll today!
December 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Cheri… such words should be kept to a minimum. Tshirt, nightie??
December 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I like!!
Now lemme go read the old ones
December 4th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
i need to to go bungee jumping soon, very soon
December 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Eeeeeehhhhh RK!!!
You are moderating!!!
December 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Not me, not soon.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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December 4th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
TRP, glad you like. and the moderation only happens on the first comment. we’re having spam issues.
Emrys, I know. we should orgnise
@Nevender…
December 5th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Wow. I feel like that rope yanked me back too, wasn’t expecting it.
Brilliantly writ, DK.
December 5th, 2008 at 5:07 am
This bees very scary, I’d not even attempt such a fit.
but it’s a beautiful piece am off to the past ones
December 5th, 2008 at 7:16 am
It’s refreshing to escape from the harsh realities of life once in a while.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:16 am
It’s refreshing to escape from the harsh realities of life once in a while.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am
how can you make me think death will meet this man at the end of his dark tunnle, i swing from him jumping off a building to okay into water with a huge slub sunk in before him, only to find it was bungee jumping!
December 5th, 2008 at 9:12 am
gwe dude seriously i thougth this guy was doing himeself in….omg. only to find that he was bungee jumping..i actually like the whole idea…lol…have a great weekend..
December 5th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Yu gat me there. Thought dude was
off to meet his creator.
Good one S.K.
Otherwise, how yu doing?
December 5th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Have you played God of War? It starts off somewhat like this. Kratos is standing on the edge of a cliff
“The Gods of Olympus have abandoned me, now there is no hope!”
Narrator: And Kratos cast himself from the highest mountain in all of Greece. After ten years of suffering, ten years of endless nightmares, it would finally come to an end, death, would be his escape from madness. But it had not always been this way, Kratos had once been a champion of the Gods…
December 5th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Bungee jumping is not a good way to escape the realities of life! In a few seconds, it is way more frightening than life! Lol!
Good one, DK.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
@Princess, thank you
@Emis, thank you, hope you like the past ones
@Emeka, welcome to this slice of internet weakness. And yes, it is refreshing, but only for a while
@Lulu, lol, a twist in the tale is always refreshing, no?
@Uggurrl, gracias, have a blessed weekend too
@Johnny, I’m cool man, how you be? And thanks.
@Dante, nope, havent. Unless I can lay my hands on the PC version, I might never. Has some awesome reviews through. Interesting co-incidence in story though…
December 5th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
@Mama Pete, me I want to use it as an excuse to fly. Merci. How’s Pete?
December 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Some good writing.Am challenged.Fuck.No sleep tonyte. that jumping of the cliff bit is not for me did it once left my soul on the cliff swore “Never”.But hey you know what they say “Never say Never”.How are you?
December 6th, 2008 at 11:48 am
oh this is really good… i am so liking and so being convinced some more that i need to go bungee jumping… it is weird that it has taken me long to do it since i am actually an adrenaline junky…
December 8th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Nice post. Thank you for the info. Keep it up.
December 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Happy endings? Come on. Be a man. Kill the guy. I wish it were blood and brains that washed his body?
LOL [This is just an attempt to avoid being killed in here]
December 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
December 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
he did it, he proposed.holla