Memoirs of the Unborn. Time

Brief introduction.

 The series “Memoirs of the Unborn” was conceived as a collection of 10 short stories, the plots of which intersect with each other. This series was written and completed (as I believed at that time) in 2014.

 

In 2018, I showed my stories to a virtual friend, who advised me to add “Memoirs of an Unborn Time” to the series. I accepted his idea, for which I am sincerely grateful to him, and this is what I came up with.

Time passed, ran, rushed and flew. It seemed as natural as it was necessary. Time was torn between everyone who needed it. And everyone needed it. At all times, eras, in parallel realities, worlds.

Everyone was so accustomed to it that its existence was taken for granted - like the existence of the sun, water, air. It was believed that they had always existed and would remain so forever. Although, Eternity is the diocese of Time.

But no one asked him. It seemed to work for people and served them. And this also went without saying.

Life itself, which was born once upon a time, was self-evident. And as a phenomenon and institution, it was considered eternal. Even if the living were mortal.

It is paradoxical that both Life and Death were a matter of Time. Both literally and figuratively.

People could not imagine their world without Time, outside of Time. We couldn’t imagine ourselves without this dimension. It seemed that it was everywhere.

Everything reminded of his existence: watches (both wrist watches, sand watches, sun watches), clocks, chronometers, speedometers, flasks and chimes, and other meters.

It was measured, divided, sold, rented, delayed and deferred. They won, they gave, they lost... as an object, an item, an essence, as something that exists, tangible-physical - without any doubt.

But there was only one catch: Time did not know, did not suspect and could not even suspect about all this. It was a fiction, an invention, a convention.

Time did not live and did not exist. Never.

And for only one reason - it was never born, just as all the heroes and characters of all previous episodes were never born.

They were not born precisely because Time was necessary for their conception, maturation and birth.

That very Time that was never born.

9.05. 2018, original (Russian) version.