There Shall Be No Other Gods Before Me by James Ahlscwhede
Thursday morning, the last morning of my life. By my reckoning it has been at least 4 hours since time stopped to function. 

Somehow, this morning, after I got out of the shower and had gone downstairs to eat my breakfast time for me had failed to continue to march forward. I have found that I can still have an effect on physical object through space, but normal laws of physics do not apply to them after I have let them go. For, example, I picked up my spoon to bring my cereal to my mouth and after i had taken a bite I set the spoon in the air and it did not fall; it has been waiting four hours for the next second to come and klang it to the floor. The cereal itself is an example of the problems this situation poses. It was, by necessity dry because while I could physically place the flakes of cereal in my bowl, I could not make the milk pour from the carton. 

I have put on my best suit and decided to explore my strange new world with hopes of finding what has caused this calamity to befall me. Hopefully, I can find someone facing the same problem and together we can puzzle our way out of this.



It has been several years now since this curse of immortality was cast upon me. In that time I have discovered many strange and wondrous things. If there are any others like me, I have been unable to locate them, and I believe that I am truly alone. There are other people in his universe, for I think now that I am no longer in my own, but they are like a corpse, stiff and cold to the touch. I no longer get hungry and all my bodily functions have ceased, including my breathing and heart beat. I can not cut myself with a blade, for no pain or blood flows from the wound, and I can not cast myself down from a height, for I simply walk across the air.



It has been at least a millennia, if not two since I began my journey. I have walked across the oceans and visited many strange and foreign lands. I am now sure that this is still the same universe of my birth. I have now mastered time and can travel from time to time, but I can only exist at one singular point in time and I can not travel between points quick enough to bring myself back into the stream of time. I have also come to master electromagnetism, gravity, the strong, and the weak nuclear forces through a means that I do not truly understand myself, but nothing I can do can allow me to interact with people as a normal person, and nothing I can do ever ends my tortured existence. It is clear to me though that this is not a curse, but rather a blessing, for over this time I have become God in name and in deed. However, I have sinned, for I feel the sting of sorrow for I am forever alone, and being unhappy I am imperfect. Imperfection is the gravest sin a God can ever commit for it reveals a hypocrisy that I have perpetrated since the beginning of time. For this grave sin, I damn God to an eternity in hell; long may he reign.
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