𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝕱𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖊𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖄𝖔𝖚

Introduction

I saw a story by RJ Stockton and saw that he had changed the font in the title of his piece and I was wondering how he had done it. He told me and I have an idea for a forthcoming challenge so I thought I would combine the two in a story of my own. Then I thought of the song and album by Atomic Rooster called "Death Walks Behaind You" which had a creepy painting by William Blake as the cover. The end of the story came to mind, so the challenge can wait til August.

I tried to use the title "Death Walks Behind You" but the word "Walks" came out looking like "Balls" like this 𝖂𝖆𝖑𝖐𝖘 so I changed the title to "Death Forever Behind You".

This is the story that started this off, you can see why:

𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝕱𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖊𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖄𝖔𝖚

Nobody lives forever, do they? He kept himself fit but he hated that every day he was getting older. He kept his birthday secret, but people found out and sent him cards and he hated it. He knew that one day he would die, whether in his sleep or due to an accident, disease or even murder, everyone's road through life hits the reaper's scythe at some point.

He started reading ancient books in the library, including The Bible, Methuselah lived 999 years but that was not enough for him even though he was only 24.

His life was work, library, sleep. Social interaction stopped. Work was necessary to pay for living. He read horror and science fiction to find clues to the possibility of immortality while believing that his quest was doomed to failure.

Because he had little social contact there was nobody to tell him what he was doing was wrong or futile and he delved into the underground found in dark back streets of the city that he lived in.

He consulted spiritualists, and mediums and eventually found witches and magi who inferred that there were immortals on this plain, but only certain types of people could ever hope to attain this state.

Day after day, week after week he searched, and the whispers gave away the identity of the one who could give him the immortality that he yearned for. He had not considered the consequences of attaining everlasting life, that was the only thing that mattered to him.

He then found the magus who could fulfil his dream.

The magus' abode was dark and set out his price, the magus demanded a tube of his blood, his seed, his urine, and his solid waste. He was disgusted but it was a small process to pay for his immortality.

The magus sent him away and told him to return in one week with his payment.

A week later he returned to the magus with his payment.

The magus told him to go home, sleep and he would become an immortal.

He went home and ate, watched some TV, and then went to bed and fell into an incredibly deep sleep.

He woke or was he in a dream? He was in a tunnel, and he was naked and on all fours. He was also very old and had a long grey beard. Then he heard a voice behind him.

"I am your death, keep moving and I will not catch you, but stop, even for a minute"

"Death is forever behind you"

"Death walks behind you"

"While you live, you are immortal. You have your wish, but death walks behind you, now move"

He started to crawl. This was immortality. This was not what he wanted and he knew that he would stop crawling and let death take him.

This immortality was hell.