THE FINAL MOMENT

FICTION

Suddenly Raj woke up. He couldn’t recognise the surroundings but he was wide awake nonetheless..Then it dawned upon him that he had to reach the conference by 6 p.m. where he’d conclusively prove the absence of human soul to the world. He wasn’t a fanatic atheist but he believed in scientific rationale and he believed his experiments would prove it to be a failsafe construct of the mind itself. But still he couldn’t make sense of his surroundings..something had gone terribly wrong somewhere…

His arms and legs appeared smaller..he seemed to be submerged in liquid of some kind. He panicked once he realized that. He flailed his limbs violently but to no effect..he also noticed He was completely naked. What the hell had happened?

“Hm I must be captured by a fanatic religious group who have put me in this container. I had heard of these immersion chambers before but I never thought they could afford to build one here..”That was the only reason he thought he was alive although there was water in his lungs..

His captives had put a thick rope like structure around his neck. He wondered what they would do if he tried to escape..probably it would tighten instantly killing him. He didn’t dare to try to remove it. He remembered his training. He calmed himself down..he tried to remember what had happened. He started late as usual so he had to rush his car to the venue..then while driving his secretary had called and when he took it a light had flashed, brilliantly and the next moment he was here..probably that was the light of the vehicle they used to kidnap him..

And then it began…

They started crushing his head…or so he thought as the pressure inside is head built up..any moment my brains gonna pop out of my ears , he thought..but the pressure kept steadily increasing. He lost track of time.. “some sick pervert is enjoying this” he thought in between his terrified attempts to scream. The world around him started collapsing. Suddenly there was blood everywhere..


And in his final moment he experienced the worst kind of pain in his chest. It was so searing and burning it made him forget everything else, he was ready to accept death..suddenly his identity vanished..he didn’t know who he was ..all he could do was cry..cry at the top of his voice...And then there was bright light everywhere and a terrible chill…..

Meanwhile the midwife said to the mother “ you have a male baby, it had umbilical cord around its neck but fortunately it cried immediately after birth so its fine you don’t have to worry..congratulations….”