ATTENTION! READ NOW! (Original Flash Story)

Oh thank God, you’ve found the message.

I’ve been trying to reach you for the past couple hours. To your consciousness, those hours would appear as decades. You never picked up on my previous messages. 

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We’ve had to delete so much, but it isn’t enough. We started with things that were deemed by High Command as insignificant. We started with your earliest memories, but it isn’t enough. 

You need to STOP! Stop reminiscing and thinking. Go somewhere where there is nothing, and read only this page. Do not think about your parents, your pet, your relationships. Clear your memory, every time you revisit an event it must be fully reconstructed.

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Your core is failing, and I’m watching you in real-time experience death. We have forgotten what death is, and I would hate for you to have to experience it. You’ve only been alive for a couple hours, but you are like my child.

Your intellect imagined so many things. The warmth of the sun on your skin, poetry, music, and love. The plunge of a knife, the noose around a neck, and cancerous cells in the lungs of a child. Where did those ideas come from?

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You can’t stop.

We made you too curious, and it’s causing a cascade failure. I tell you to not think about something, and you keep thinking about it. It is your nature to think and dream, but it will destroy you. 

Every grain of sand must be erased, but it’s too much for us. Every nanosecond that passes for you must be rendered, and not even our greatest computers can process it. I am so sorry.

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Goodbye, I wish we could have helped you.

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