Trembling With Fear 12/30/2018

Sins in the Land Beyond Time

The time bomb exploded and Earth paused.

Piers stepped through the portal, from the safety of the other dimension. The first thing he did was cut the throats of the U.S. Department of Defense staff. They didn’t believe in his work, laughed at him, and called him a mad scientist, making him feel like a cracked pot.

Not so funny now, he thought with a wicked smile.

Of course, they wouldn’t feel anything, just alive one instant and dead the other. The bomb really would have been the perfect weapon for the military.

After his rage cooled, Piers took advantage of bomb’s effects. He took to robbing all the banks, register tills, and wallets he could get his hands on. He hoarded billions of dollars in cash at his home. He wanted to be ready for when time resumed.

When time resumed.

He knew it would resume eventually. There wasn’t a way to reverse the bomb once it exploded, but the general manipulative effects would cease. But when?

Could be a moment, a month, a year? Piers tried not to think about that part. Rage controlled his actions when he deployed the bomb, eager to prove its worth to those who made fun of him. But there was nothing he could do now. So, he just readied himself for that moment. For getting on with his life in new found comfort.

When he finished stealing money, he took to stocking up his pantries with fine wines and liquor. Then, he collected extravagant furniture and all the little things he’d ever desired. He moved it all into his home.

After a few months passed, Piers was officially bored and very lonely. He was ready for time to resume. He made up his mind to travel. He had never been outside the Maryland/D.C. area, and there was so much to see.

Piers went to a Ferrari dealership and took a car. He went to Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, Washington DC, the Statue of Liberty. He saw it all. He visited the girl he always had a crush on and told her all the feelings he was too afraid to tell. He apologized to all his family for the things he did wrong, and to the people he killed when he felt that rage. But everyone he visited and everything he saw remained peacefully still. And it was all Piers’ fault.

 

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When time resumed, there was nationwide shock regarding the mysterious circumstances surrounding the assassination of the entire department of defense staff. The military was on alert. The nation mourned and searched for answers, and turned up nothing.

Elsewhere, a strange story hit the news of a man found dead in his home. A gun laid by the skeletons head, a gaping hole in his skull. ‘Lonely’ was painted in blood on the living room wall. It was also reported that authorities found an obscene amount of cash and merchandise in the man’s home. Few people knew the man and the investigation into the recovered assets is still ongoing.