Simulation Series: A Short Story

I look over at Caleb and see that he is unconscious, with blood rolling down his forehead from a shard of glass that hit him when the back windows exploded. Suddenly I hear a loud scream. Sirens, making a noise so blood curdling, like a symphony of women screaming at the top of their lungs. It reminds me of that day when I was eight, except this time it’s my brother who I am hoping is okay, not Tina, who I knew wasn’t going to make it.

We got there got sized for equipment and waited for the first rock wall to be opened. The wall was

It was a day like any other, until Surai hears a piercing screech that slowly fades away. “Hey, did you guys hear that?” says Surai. “Yeah it sounded like a scream” replies Tooler. “I wonder who it was?” questions Mickey. All of them rush to the edge and discover nothing. They all say their goodnights and return to our rooms. They all go to sleep wondering who made that noise. The next day we wake up and find a load of people crowded on the deck. “It’s chaos” Surai says. Tooler goes up and asks Schmedrick what’s wrong. “Schmandon has gone missing, and a bunch of people thought they heard a scream last night” replies Schmedrick. Surai, Mickey, and Tooler then realize that it was Schmandon who made the scream last night. “I think that Schmandon

He laid there, staring at the tv playing the news. It was about the shooting. I rushed to turn it off, blocking his view. He blinked at me, then smiled. “Hey, buddy.” I smiled back, crawling next to him and hugging him. Some happy tears stained our shirts as I held him. We laid there for a long time in just pure silence. Our minds were saying the unspoken words. “Why did it happen?” Travis said into the air. “It happened because--” I stopped short. Why did it happen? Travis stared up at me, waiting for my answer. “I-I don’t know.” my brow furrowed in confusion as I pondered. Silence overcame us again. Eventually, soft snores came from Travis. He had fallen asleep. I stared at the wall, still unable to sleep. A woman somewhere screamed for unknown reasons. That scream triggered a flashback in my

Then we heard someone run at us, it was the man again, we started running away. I had grabbed my gummy bears beforehand, causing me to have to shove the bag in my pocket. We ran until we heard Curtis’ scream as the man’s scythe stab him in the back. The man proceeded to drag Curtis’ body across the road leaving a trail of blood.

We were four in our group and we were given a scenario of a patient who was having an anaphylactic reaction from bee sting venom. The group agreed that I will be the primary nurse. As the primary nurse, I knew that I had to lead and supervised our group in responding to the emergency situation at hand. Having played the role of a primary nurse in this simulation, I have gained meaningful experience, which I can use in my future nursing practice.

“Why are you down the road when I am here about to get murdered? Come back! All of y’all!” and I hang up before he can argue. I have been sitting in my car on Lambert road, wondering if Ben is really going to get out of the car, for what feels like eternity. Finally, I see headlights and hear the engines of my friends vehicles revving at the end of the road. Our friends had came back for us.

Drevin bumps into me, but I come up with a plan. I hit the brake and let Drevin speed off. I drive off the bridge and land on the tires, I speed up and finish the race with a shortcut. Drevin got mad but I just said that he pushed me and I couldn’t control it. He wanted a rematch but I decline the request. Drevin invites me to go to a soccer match between Stratford East, Drevin’s team that he bought, and Chelsea, Alex’s favorite team to watch. We go to the game and watch it. Chelsea won,but by a weird way. They were winning, but then Stratford East had a penalty kick that would tie the game and it would be over, but the best player on the team, Adam Wright, missed the goal by about a yard! It was strange though, because Adam hadn’t played well the entire game. As everybody was leaving, I spot someone, one of the men that had kidnapped me! I chase after him and lose him. I try a door, and have some luck, there were three of the men who had kidnapped me with Adam Wright all in the locker room. They give Adam a medal, but when they do, I feel the freezing ness of a gun on the back of my neck. I turn around to find the fourth kidnapper behind me. He leads me to the crowds with the gun in his

She reaches for the lock and he bites off her arm, and then the people start spewing out of the windows and each is a rat dragging a building and screaming for her to unloose them. She wakes up and, afraid that she might get used to all that he hat and fears about the street, resolves to keep fighting and get away. She thinks of an afternoon the spring before when she had seen a crowd around a man who had been stabbed by a butcher on Lenox Avenue and

As sick as it was Gabby needed a drink, and she hated herself for it. Pulling her knees up Gabby rested her head against them and wrapped her hands around her ears as if to block out the world. It felt as if she were being sucked down the rabbit hole, her world spiraling out of control. And the only anchor she had was dying next to her, and she was the one that killed him. "fuck." she sobbed softly tried to block out all the other people arriving. She wanted to crawl into her own skin and disappear, but she couldn't do that. At least not until she knew Hunter would be

Zack reached down and pulled the handle. He had to use his shoulder to get the door open. He gritted out a cry of pain as he got out and leaned against one of Monty’s cars. Tina managed to scoot out and hit the pavement. She looked over at Garrett to see his full attention was on the car in front of him. Zack managed to get the backseat opened and ushered Tina inside first. He crawled in after her and pulled the door closed. “I’m getting the two of them to the hospital. Move to block him in. Cops are on the way,” the driver said over a radio. A couple of other voices came back over the radio with a ‘Roger that’ and then they were off.

In the beginning of the simulation I was wandering around for a little bit, confused on what I really needed to do. I ended up finding some friends that had previously gone through reality rocks and they steered me in the right direction. Once I got into the flow of things and realised what I needed

He picked up and I quickly explained the situation, he told me that he was going to use the iPhone app called Find Friends to locate my location. I was still running when I saw old buildings, but not just any old buildings, but the old buildings of Tampa, Florida I knew I was close to home. Then I saw many cars heading my way, in the front seat of the first car I saw Caleb and my body began to fill with jubilation, but then Jake grabbed my leg and I feel down. I tried to break free but it felt as though I had twisted by ankle badly. Jake began to drag me as I yelled as loud as I could. I was then hit by a log and everything became blurry, and the last thing I remembered was seeing Caleb punch Jake, and then everything went

Despite the age and immensity of the Universe, we have not been visited nor been contacted by extraterrestrial beings because we are a part of a computer simulation. According to the Simulation Hypothesis, theory provided by Nick Bostrom, humans are unaware of being part of this computer generated simulation. The most compelling piece of evidence that supports this hypothesis is the fact to one can consider a sequence of possible situations which an increasing fraction of all people live in simulations becomes more accurate. (Bostrom 1)

The outcomes of the simulation are not determined by chance or luck. Instead, participants experience consequences that follow from their own actions.