What Generates Evil?

Date: 5/13/2019

By Fitful

There was this asteroid above the earth. It didn't move but stuck there in the sky, like the moon, which also didn't move. Nothing turned. Even the face of the earth was only one face, green and upturned to the sky, full of a waving forest of grass or so it looked like. Hard to really tell from here. The earth also never turned. People lived on it, the asteroid, or at least we did. Poverty was rampant. Only the poorest lived here, those who had next to nothing, mere blankets and shoes to their name. There was a hole in the asteroid, it stretched down and down and down and down. It was full of floors, a building, glass windows, and old building abandoned long long ago. It had so many floors. Some were haunted, full of monsters and/or ghosts. Or some combination of both. Some floors were habitable but not many. It was a thing everyone feared, this deep deep well. On the other side it dropped off into space. On the other side of the asteroid. From there aliens could be called, flying one's which lit up the dark sky, but who knew their intentions. My mother, or at least I think she was my mother, had a set of twins. A child she kept for 13 years, a boy, and one she left in this jail on top of the asteroid, right near the mouth of the well. She left the other twin, also a boy I think, in there for 13 years. I didn't even know until tradgey. The world lost 4 million. And then we, a small party and a strategy, released the boy and struck the twin which had been free in his cage. His twin, which was a monster, who had killed everyone. She had locked up the wrong one you see. Although privately I wondered if you locked up anyone would they be normal and same when finally got out? Which twin was which anyway? Well I baby sat the released twin, who was still a baby, but I was terrified the one we successfully trapped would get out and kill us all. I was sad because of what we lost getting him in the cage. We left stuff, a whole room full of thigs which might have been mine, and someone, behind. He died willingly for us to leave, already so injured it didn't matter but still. A heartbreak. A sacrifice but so sad. And the one we trapped was so powerful, and angry hateful, would he stay trapped for long? I ready the baby a book which I had a hard time finding on my tablet. It might have been inappropriate for his age but he couldn't understand anyway. He had lighter skin, a dark olive hue, and this huge afro, was she a girl after all? Half of it was braided and I contemplated pom poms cause they'd be cute. An older woman who also lived on the asteroid was happy, well almost. It was the last dregs of happy before you fell to complete despair. She made ghosts sink bast this curtain which led to a lower valley. There tehy reunited with their bodies which had been taken there and were content for eternity in the valley. This valley was and wasn't part of the asteroid, it sorta went off the asteroid like a natural extention but you couldn't go there. Not unless you were dead. I called the aliens at the end, they came through or at least hear the call and came and I saw them on the otwhr side, through that terrifying and deep well. I braved passing all those floors, sliding by the ones with monsters which ate you, and to the other side. Was it me in my body or just my mind, memory, dreaming consciousness? Either way they looked like sting rays, giant sting rays without a stinger. And they were all lit up like under a black light.