Stories from tomorrow's people
Not a body to bury. Not a soul to mourn. Just a blinking cursor where their consciousness used to be. A god with a delete button, and Ife was nothing more than an error in his perfect paradise.
In a bid to give life some meaning in a digital world, we have decided to find a new way to feel a little struggle. We’ve found new life in pain.
A Time Tale Letters Challenge entry by Ikechukwu David
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“She called me by a name I had never told her. She spoke of memories I had never shared. And when I searched for her afterward, she was simply… gone.”
In Dev, whispers of The Chime are growing—echoes of conversations that don’t feel real, friends who seem perfect until they vanish without a trace. Maya’s curiosity leads her to a dangerous truth: not all who exist in the digital utopia were ever meant to.
For three seconds, everything cracked. Tariku Negasi’s flawless broadcast faltered, revealing something the world was never meant to see. Beneath the perfect facade of humanity’s digital utopia where whispers of a dark underbelly threatening to unravel everything.
I’m writing this letter because I know if I leave it as just a memory or thought, someone will find the entire thread of it and delete it from our collective stacks, and it may be lost forever. This is the reality here in Dev.
I stand in the digital rendering of the village square, scanning through the lifeless crowd…Some people tweak the settings to add neon lights and DJ booths, turning the rite into a party. They call it innovation. I call it desecration.
I sit here wondering what life might have been if I had stayed with you. The memories are a tangled web of joy and regret, and I can’t help but replay them like a film in my mind. I remember the fights, the moments of frustration, but those are overshadowed by the countless moments of…
“When the world chose Dev, it didn’t choose salvation—it chose escape. We stayed behind, not out of faith, but because the price of paradise was never meant for us.”
The Time Tale 