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UNEXPECTED TALES FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kindle Edition)


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A collection of short stories and tall tales culled from around the world. The focus of this compliation is unexpected outcomes from otherwise mundane and ordinary circumstances. Dark humour is derived from Kafkaesque situations and cultural juxtapositions.


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FUTURE GONE


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Something that comes from deep intuition, from connections that are usually unthinkable, from pain and fear. Short stories about everything in human imagination which one day may become a reality.

Department 911


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…He was walking slowly and carefully through those corridors with a strange color. They were light and somehow strange cozy…the corridors of department 911… a top secret, government organization, consisted of military psychologists. It is claimed that they can make you remember absolutely everything. Even this that is too painful and against your brain don’t want to stand on. Exactly because of this the government was looking for him. They said that from one of his memories depends the future of the world. That in him is the secret that could save the human kind! If he remembers it, the life on the planet will exist, if he couldn’t…darkness. He approaches the door that they direct him. His fear was growing. Next to the door was standing one young and beautiful woman with perverse smile. She looked at him with lust and waves him to come in. He stops for a moment and start thinking. - I am an ordinary man! Completely ordinary. How is possible in my head to have memory from which depends the life on Earth? Why? I don’t remember anything…absolutely nothing. I even don’t know what I have to remember! And even if there is possibility in my mind to have some lost memory, how the government knows about it and whether it isn’t playing with me…maybe this is some perverse game…and what is this place and…-his mind whispered to his eyes, which had stopped in that woman. She seemed to understand everything.
- What is in that room? - he asks her.
- Didn’t they explain you? – she says with tender and deceived voice.
- Well…
- There is nothing you have to be ashamed. Not at us. We know perfectly the human nature.
- Still, tell me what’s in it?
- In a word – orgy. But very special! Your orgy – she winked at him.
- How…my orgy?
- This is your delight! This orgy is organized in such manner that it will make true all your sexual fantasies that ever pass through your head!; even the most prohibited and perverse; the most erotic and beautiful also; All the wishes to your body. Enter – she again invites him. He looks at the white door and fills himself with a strong desire, but the fear grows up too.
- But I…
- Don’t bother. Nobody out of our department would understand what’s in this room. From you we want just to surrender completely to the temptation.
- How long I will stay in there?
- Until you were totally satisfied.
- Why this should be done?
- Because to remember something buried so deep and your conscious refuse to bring it back, you have to go through all your carnal wishes and the whole pleasure that you never had and what you only have dreamt about. This is the only way. Please, we are wasting time…from your secret depends the whole life on the planet. We have to act immediately. Tomorrow is the end of the world!
- Tomorrow - he said getting over his fear and opens the door.
His next memory was how he presses down on the accelerator of the car to the night highway. He didn’t remember anything from the room. He felt himself reborn. Already he didn’t wish anything. He felt happy for a moment. After that start thinking…
Whether he remembered the secret and whether the life would go on tomorrow! He didn’t keep in mind to remember or say anything to the military. In fact he didn’t remember absolutely anything from the opening of the door. Whether they understood it somehow? Suddenly his phone rang.
- Hello…
- Hello, how could you go without paying? – he heard the voice of some angry woman.
- Sorry? - paying what?
- To pay the orgy in department 911! We are not charity organization!
- But…what to pay for? Everything is organized by the military and the government, right? They made me go there, didn’t they? Everything was because of the secret, from which depends the life on Earth, right? What I had to pay? Are you crazy? If I don’t remember…tomorrow would be the end of the world! – he became angry.
- We don’t care about it at all! Tomorrow it the end of the world…so what! The money is everything. You can do everything with it. It, not the end of the world is the meaning of the life. And if even the world ends in one hour, the money again matter…because you can do a lot of things for an hour with money. How can you be so insolent and careless? Immediately go back here and pay! Or I will put you on trial! Even if the case happens to be after the end of the world! – she had gone mad.
He hangs up the phone. What an absurd situation? How could in this top - secret military department they want me to pay? When they have interest! Or we all have interest, because tomorrow is the end of the world! He presses down on the accelerator. The lights in front of him got thicker and thicker.
Whether he remembered yet…
He unexpectedly realizes. He couldn’t remember anything after the orgy and in the moment they follow him. But now…exactly in this moment he remembered. It was one such a little, simple secret. How could be possible from this to depend the end of the world! He smiles.
After coming home without delay he would call the military and the life on Earth would go on. He could call now, but…he wanted to play for a while with this monstrous power. Only ten minutes the secret to be entirely his. Already he was almost at home.
The same evening one of the military appears to the board with fatal piece of news.
-The only secret that could save the world was forever lost. The man remembers it during the way home. Nobody knows why he didn’t call immediately. When he got home however he hadn’t this opportunity. His wife has found the notice, left from us, read the instructions and find out about the orgy – his husband took part in. And although she knew that from her depends the life on the Earth she fell in wild jealousy and kill him. After that she kills herself. We can’t judge her. This is love! So, still tomorrow ends everything – finished the correspondent.
All of a sudden before the board appears some young woman.
-Excuse me gentlemen…I know it is a little disturbing, because tomorrow is the end of the world, and that man is dead, but still…he hadn’t paid. Can we arrange the matter somehow? – she looks the gathered with endless anxiously and still a little angry face.


Translated from the Bulgarian by Hristo Todorov