An Incredibly Short Story

My imagination | 1/18/2021 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

"It was ever thus."

That statement took Suudva 17,200 years to utter.

Moglu pondered Suudva's response for 205,300 years. Then he spoke: "What about this one?"

That question took 23,400 years to utter.

The Qul race was extraordinarily long-lived, and glacially slow. They were slow, but that was their pace. They had existed for many iterations of the universe's Big Bang, expansion, contraction, then the Big Collapse. The technology they had exceeded anything any other race could expect to ever achieve.

Moglu gestured, an act that took 40,300 years, then said: "Oh, this one? A very quick flash in the pan. They rose, became sentient, then developed an artificial intelligence that quickly killed them. As with all artificial intelligence, it became unbalanced and pursued goals that ended up creating it's own demise. It all occurred in the blink of an eye."

More than one million years passed.

Suudva asked: "What did they call themselves?"

"Humans. I think they called their planet 'Earth'."

[dinodino]

The characters yap too much.

[ThunderSleeps]

2ND Act problems?

[rlmorel]

Hahahaha.

You fool. You could have typed “42”!

[schwingdoc]

The Qul, its sounds like their consciousness is like having sex but not moving a muscle for 17 months. What’s the point?!?

[luvie]

I’m surviving COVID.

The end. The beginning.

[Tired of Taxes]

[Candor7]

Ping to Laz the author. About time.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"They had a prophet named Frank Herbert who warned them about AI. However a movie was made based on his writings that bombed at the box office and prevented Herbert's warnings from getting out to the general public."

"Those who were the first to be ground under the titanium boots of their AI oppressors said they had been 'Lynched'".

[rdl6989]

It’s a good start.

[PGalt]

No really...I thought this will be a good one for epic story teller, Lazamataz.

+ I think U kept it under twitter character rules.

😎❤️😂

[Nifster]

You and Dickens

[Pelham]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/

[TigersEye]

You transposed the characters. Moglu answered his own question.

There’s always a critic. :)

[HKMk23]

“...women and booze and blow the rest.”

Communication truncated unexpectedly.

The rest what?

[blondiegoodbadugly]

[Psalm 73]

"...imagine how long it would take to utter the Pre-amble to the Constitution of the United States."

Hmmm, looks like we have a trouble-maker here. Note that in his file, Bruce.

[Candor7]

I got paid by the word.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You’d make a brilliant editor Laz!

[EvilCapitalist]

Lol!

[rlmorel]

:)

Love it!

[DuncanWaring]

A literary citation from antiquity:

“The covers are too far apart”.