It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”
“Yup,” I said.
“I… I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”
@SrRochardBunson It took me a few moments to realise something about the framing of this piece.
Most stories are told in the third person, omniscient narrator and all that.
Some are told in the first person. Personal narrative.
A few are told in the second person --- the reader is the narrator.
This is told in the first and second person, as fiction. I'm sure that's done elsewhere, but it's pretty unusual, and it's a bit daring: the narrator (first person) is telling the reader (second person) what they are feeling, have experienced, etc.
(Now I'm trying to think of other examples of books / stories told like this.)
I didn’t know about these. I liked Martian and his latest one but not the moon one. (I’m abysmal at remembering names of what I read.) I’ll have to look these up. Thanks, guys.
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