Tag: immortality

• PARADOX

  

  Two new hips and knees. A hair transplant. New skin. A bionic liver. A new kidney. My third heart. I went through the list in my head. Immortality came at a cost. There wasn’t much of my original body left, the one I was born with. But looked the same as I did when I…

  Iain Kelly

  20/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, age, brain, catch-22, creative writing, experience, fear, feelings, Fiction, Flash Fiction, heart, immortality, life, literature, medical, memory, mortality, paradox, parts, replace, ship, Short Story, story, surgery, time, transplant, whole, Writing, writing prompt

• CRYONICS

  

  The Director of the Institute walked Peter along an endless sterile corridor. ‘So, Mr. Franks, when you choose your time to arrive here, you’ll get a secure shuttered unit assigned to you.’ The Director informed him. ‘So behind each of these shutters…?’ Peter tailed off. The Director smiled. ‘Yes, behind each of these doors there…

  Iain Kelly

  30/09/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  comedy, creative writing, cryogenics, cryonics, eternity, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, humour, immortality, literature, re-animation, sci-fi, science fiction, Short Story, Writing