Tag "Isolation" - Works and Original stories

I am an oak beside a river, watching centuries pass as clear water turns dark and a village rises, fades, and forgets itself. I stand still while children play, machines tremble through my roots, and silence returns. In the end, desperate hands come for me, and what happens after my fall is carried off by the river’s dark current.

Aren is taken to the Lamentarium, a place where sorrow hums through stone and something unseen listens from the depths. Guided by a woman who speaks in half‑truths, he meets a glowing being meant to claim his grief—until a voice not his own warns him that the walls remember more than they reveal.

When humanity finally achieves a flawless world—free of sickness, violence, and corruption—I’m no longer part of it. Trapped between life and death, I drift unseen through the utopia I once dreamed of, watching my friends and family thrive in a future that doesn’t remember I existed. As a silent ghost in paradise, I must confront the question no one else can hear: What does perfection mean when the world becomes perfect only after you’re gone?