{"id":1205,"date":"2017-02-04T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.closelycoded.site\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:05:10","slug":"acts-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/entry\/acts-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts Of Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"submit-data\">Submitted by <strong><\/strong><br>on December 01, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QUANTUM SHORTS 2017: SHORTLISTED, YOUTH CATEGORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe world is disappearing\u201d, I repeat the government announcement over and over in my mind. A talking head on the TV says that somehow everything is fading from conscious existence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sit in a sterile, brightly lit holding cell. No, sorry, not a prison, a creche, a government creche. To \u201ckeep us safe\u201d, they say\u2026 though obviously there\u2019s only so much that the authorities can do. They can\u2019t always think of all of us. They have to think of themselves too, I suppose, or we\u2019ll all disappear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arya\u2019s bundled up in a bunch of blankets on the softly padded floor. Arya, my baby. I love her with all my heart. I keep repeating that thought as my drowsy eyelids droop lower and lower. Arya\u2019s bottle begins to fade, becoming blurry and translucent. For a second I think that it\u2019s just my imagination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It isn\u2019t. Arya begins to wail, her hand desperately grasping at the coloured nothingness, like a dying soap bubble. I sigh and force my eyes open, glaring resolutely at the fading bottle. \u201cAppear! Entangle!\u201d I whisper hoarsely and it regains tactility in Arya\u2019s hand. Oh God. Good, she\u2019s stopped crying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, like some sort of rotten joke on humanity, if you stop looking at or thinking about something for just one minute, it disappears from the universe forever. Although it\u2019s not as if there are any other options for existence, there are only two possibilities: yes or no. Once you\u2019re gone, you\u2019re gone for good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point is, we need to think of our world right now. No, nothing really matters. It\u2019s just me and Arya. I just have to keep thinking of the things we need to survive, to keep from fading. I need her. I can\u2019t lose her. She\u2019s all I have.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t remember\u2026 how I got here. Am I in a creche or a prison? Wasn\u2019t there a TV earlier? Arya. If I have a child&#8230; does that mean I used to have a husband? Can\u2019t afford to think of him. Doesn\u2019t matter. Only Arya.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My body slumps against the side of the wall. My back sticks with cold sweat to the porous concrete.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bare back? Why am I naked? Arya- Arya\u2019s\u2026 Oh. Clothes. I forgot our clothes. Do they matter? Only Arya matters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am\u2026 so tired. So, so very tired. Eyes so tired.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arya\u2019s eyes are\u2026 closed?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hand &#8211; I raise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fading?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wait&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 01, 2017<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"desc\">Arya matters. 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