T H E B L A C K W O R M H O L E

T H E B L A C K W O R M H O L E

“Greed will be your perdition” is what Ryan’s father always told him when he was a child. Now as an adult, Ryan is the typical unhappy office employee who hates his routinary life along with his boss.

        

               As usual, he was once again the only worker remaining at the establishment, even though it was 3 A.M. His boss had gave him the job of printing a massive load of documents again, for a minimal amount of extra money. He had accepted, and there he was, alone, in a peaceful silence, except for the sound of the printing machine.

             

              Among the documents he was printing, there was a very strange one: a paper sheet with a black circle in the middle. He didn’t pay attention to it and put his coffee cup on top of the black circle. Suddenly and to his surprise, the coffee cup fell into the black circle, as if it was a pit.

             Maybe it was a glitch in the matrix, maybe it was a gift bestowed by a God, or maybe it was just the materialization of his hollow self, but whatever it was, it was indeed a strange physical manifestation: A black wormhole in one of his printed sheets.

           He was astonished by it, and started to test it by introducing his arm into the wormhole. It felt like his arm entered in separate container out of this dimension. Not only that, he also discovered that he could trespass solid objects by using the paper sheet as a bridge. He found out this by putting the wormhole on the snacks machine’s window and being able to nab a chocolate bar from it.

            So what brilliant use could a mediocre, unhappy, and bad paid man give to this complex artifact? Exactly, stealing millions of dollars from the safe box of the office. Ryan, in an act of greed, placed the wormhole in the door of the safe box and inserted his arms in it to grab all the stacks of money he could. He already had more money than he would ever need in his life, but his greed drove him to nab every single dollar from the safe box.

          In the end, Ryan noticed that he wasn’t being able to grab the last stack of money from the back of the container, so he decided to enter with his full body to the wormhole. Bad idea. The sheet of paper suddenly fell into the ground with the wormhole facing down, meaning that Ryan had been trapped inside of the container. It was just a matter of time for the police to find out him in the safe box, if he didn’t die asphyxiated by the lack of air in it before.

Perhaps if he had remembered to his father’s advice, he wouldn’t have fell into that oblivion of future, created by his own greed.

Franco González