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Posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009

Dave!About six years ago I wrote a short sci-fi story called "Ageless" for a friend's birthday that had kind of a Twilight Zone style twist at the end. The story was about a scientist who created a device which would tell you with absolute certainty the age at which a person would die. He used his invention to become world-famous and very wealthy because people were lining up to know about how much longer they had to live. That way, they could take crazy risks, live life to its fullest, and blow all their money before their "death year" rather than save it for a rainy day that would never come. A sub-plot involving an evil life insurance company's plot to steal the device was also in there somewhere.

At the end of the story, the scientist finally decided to use the device on himself and discovered that he was already in his "death year" at age 32, and would most certainly die before his 33rd birthday just six months away. He flew into a total panic, and spent every day obsessing over how and when he would die. Finally, after only two weeks of being driven insane by the thought of his impending death, he committed suicide.

The big "twist" came the following day when a newspaper story announced that a cure for aging had been discovered. People could drink the "Fountain of Youth" drug and live forever. Hence, they would remain the same age until they died from unnatural circumstances. Had the scientist not become death-obsessed and killed himself, he would have indeed died at age 32... but hundreds of years in the future.

It wasn't the greatest story... and the plot had probably already been done before somewhere... but that wasn't the point. It was fun to write, and made a great birthday present for my friend (as the scientist in the story was given his name).

Every year since then, my friend calls to remind me that his birthday is coming up, apparently in a bid to get me to write him another story. Today was the day he called, and I had to once again tell him that I didn't feel I had any stories left to tell.

After I hung up the phone, I suddenly realized why that is.

It's because I write in this blog every day. All my stories end up here.

So happy birthday!


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Comments

  1. Sybil Law says:

    Make him a cartoon!
    I think the story sounds great!!

  2. this blog is a wonderful birthday present. thanks!

    i ate at benehana’s this evening and almost told them it was my birthday. if i would have read this earlier i totally would have. i love that happy if you know it song in japanese.
    🙂

  3. Michelle M. says:

    What a great story – I’d love to read it in it’s entirety.

    And thanks for forgoing J.K. Rowling/Stephenie Meyer type wealth in order to give me a daily birthday present!

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