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A Shattered Reality

A Manipulative Reality

By Hasan QurashiPublished about a year ago 4 min read

A boy named Ryan lives in Indiana, America. His Life is very depressing as he gets bullied in the school by his classmates, gets beaten up by his stepdad and his mother is helpless against his husband. The issue is that he has no one safe to turn. Where he can open, share his feelings and feel like this is my safe space I wouldn’t be hurt here, my feelings will be preserved, and I will be fine. So, Ryan is hoping that he will be able to find his safe space which will click with his nature just fine. However, Ryan’s Life was about to take a dark turn.

One day, in school Ryan came on the target of a delinquent named Jared who just wanted money. So, he started to harass Ryan. Ryan as usually being weak can’t do anything just got beaten up by Jared and his goons and gave up all the money that he saved. When Ryan came back home all beaten up. When his stepdad saw his condition, he didn’t tend his wounds but start beat him up even more because he was unable to defend himself in front of just some random goons.

After this immediately Ryan out of that house and ran to a near by hill crying. When he reached the edge of the cliff he stood there for a few minutes. While standing their some the few beautiful memories of his past flashed before his eyes. His disturbing memories started to resurface, and he decided that he will end his life by jumping of that hill. So, he closed his eyes and said “Sorry mom and dad, I lost my battle to life. My fire of life force has been extinguished. So, I am going to the life hereafter, I see you, their Bye.”

After which he jumped but didn’t die. So, when he opened his eyes, he didn’t even have single broken bone. He was astound by how is he still alive. He got up and started to see around if anyone is here who saved me. However, he didn’t saw anyone. So, after this he went home and immediately went to bed. While in bed he started to think that what happened back their, but he can’t come up with logical reason that what was the cause that saved him up back there. Thinking this he fell asleep.

While he was sleeping, he started to hear a voice. This was the voice of his subconsciousness, telling him that he saved his life and granted him the power to manipulate reality. So that you can take revenge on those who pushed you to a point where you tried to take your life however this power has a cost that it will eat up your consciousness and after your consciousness ends you will die. So next day in the morning he got up and started to test he power to see if it works or not without thinking about the cost that he will have to pay while using this power. The power will activate when Ryan snaps his fingers.

So, he created an alternate reality where he didn’t get beat up by all that beat him when he was in the true reality. He snapped his fingers, and the people were there in that manipulative reality who beat him up, but he wasn’t getting beaten up anymore. So, then he started to orchestrate a plan where he takes out all the people one by one who hurt him in the original reality. His first objective to achieve is that he will erase the existence of his stepdad by creating manipulative realities. So that day he told his stepdad everything before erasing his existence in every reality. His stepdad started to laugh. However, Ryan giving his stepdad a sinister smile said, “Laugh as you want however this is the end for you.” He snapped his fingers, and the stepdad began to turn into ash, and he was gone. After that, next time in the school after some time Ryan told Jared to come to back alley because it’s payback time. So, Jared arrived with his goons in the back alley and there they were about to hit Ryan, but he snapped his fingers, and they ceased to exist. However, everyone forgot about Jared, but his little brother Sam had a letter from his brother Jared and reported to the police that he was missing. So, the police somehow reached Ryan because of the camera in the back alley. However, Ryan wiped off the police force by creating another manipulative reality. After taking erasing the whole police force. His consciousness was destroyed plus his own mother saw everything. So, he explained everything to his mother and told her that “My fate is sealed, and this is my truth. So, I am excepting it.” After this he snapped his fingers for the last time where he erased his mother’s memory and ceased to exist himself. This was end of Ryan’s life.

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Hasan Qurashi

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  • Gul Afshan Noorabout a year ago

    Great story

  • ReadShakurrabout a year ago

    Amazing

  • Zach Jonesabout a year ago

    Good One.

  • Hasan Qurashi (Author)about a year ago

    Thanks you for your response

  • Esala Gunathilakeabout a year ago

    Well done.

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