A Short Story & Narrative Experience.
A Short Story & Narrative Experience.
A Deep Interview With a Gamer
A satirical comedy about hope, the present, and the way your heart beats.
An interdimensional interview between an alien and Frank, a frenetic gamer.
This is a story about binary forces, decay and death versus hope and life.
It’s about when the past, the present, and the future get defined by your thoughts and your actions. The present is an explanation of the past, and the future is an explanation of the present.
Some say that the future doesn’t exist. What’s it going to be?
An interdimensional interview between an alien and Frank, a frenetic gamer.
This is a story about binary forces, decay and death versus hope and life.
It’s about when the past, the present, and the future get defined by your thoughts and your actions. The present is an explanation of the past, and the future is an explanation of the present.
Some say that the future doesn’t exist. What’s it going to be?
Writing Reflections
1. Here’s what I was trying to do
Write a story about how different perspectives about the past, the present, and the future clash.
This story made me understand more about how dimensions, heartbeats, and hope can make you a powerful human.
2. Here’s why
To erase excuses.
To eradicate feeling like a victim.
Life is not easy and never will be.
Play your part.
3. Here’s what I was interested in achieving
Create a conversation between a hurtful human and an almighty alien. They both teach something to each other.
4. Characters
Alien | The Interviewer | POV
- He’s an Alien; he represents death and belief.
- He’s a cosmic entity in charge of giving second chances to people who are lost in the universe.
- His methods are drastic but effective.
- He gives special missions to interesting people who have something to teach.
- If they complete them, they can leave their past traumas behind and create their own reality. If not, he gives them a ticking clock.
- Death calls, and belief answers. Who will have the last word?
Frank
- He was 15 when he once told his parents about an experience he had when he was abducted by aliens.
- His parents denied and ignored his story. He then went to his teachers at school, but they also denied and shut him down. When he told his friends and classmates, they rejected and ridiculed him. From that point on, he was bullied for the rest of his life.
Story excerpts
Then, how do you know who you are?
Frank asked me, “What’s your name?”
“I don’t have a name. I don’t need it.” I explained to him that from all the galaxies and planets that I visited, humans are the only ones who have names. The other ones like me, just think and communicate.”
Are you inside my screen?
“Are you for real? Wait, are you like… Are you inside my screen? Oh hell yeah! Hell yeah… Yeah! I knew you were real, man. Nobody believed me, man. I told them, and they silenced me, man! I then thought and convinced myself that our first conversation twenty years ago was just a dream.”
Boo
“Boo.”
“Aaaaahhhhhh, I can’t see anything. What the fuck is happening? I only can see you.”
“I know, I want you to see only me. I told you, man, I can do everything! By the way, why the fuck did you break your screen, bro? It was a good fucking monitor, man. 4K and everything.”
Personal thoughts
From the bottom of my heart, I hope you find inspiration and a spark of joy. After all, we are alive!