The Singularity: A Free-Writing Project by The Condesce

One moment
Frozen in time

One moment
Solidified as the moment when the world ended

An earthquake, a storm, a perfect tempest of unstoppable and unyielding destruction.
Not of the earth. The earth is too merciful for such a thing.

This ethereal typhoon is caused by a singularity.

This singularity is no more than a thunderclap. It happens so fast you would hardly know it was there if it weren't for the looming shadow it leaves on your whole being.

However, unlike the very definition of a shadow itself, this imprint is neither dark, nor foreboding.
It's a happy sort. It is the infinitesimally identifiable, and yet expansively and overbearingly feeling of bliss that one can only describe as nigh impossible.

But how can it be? It was there. You felt it, if only for a moment.

However, like all storms, there is never simply one clap of thunder. More follow. Some louder, some more understated, some hardly there at all, and some attempting so actively to get your attention that you want to cover your ears and hide away in the deepest and most secluded corner of your own psyche. You run, you scream, but you can never truly escape it until it loses interest and fades into the backdrop.

But these differentiating maelstroms robbed your attention for too long. Your demons didn't release hold of your spirit in time. You've finally escaped the hold of all that tethered you.. But it's too late.

That singularity... that single, joyous hand-print on the very fiber of your being.. is gone.

It disappeared in the one moment you truly weren't looking for it.

The one moment in which you lost sight of how much that feeling warmed your core, and aided you forward.

That one blip on your personal time-line that you will forever tuck away in your memory as the moment when you lost your grip on the only true reality you had.. Your anchor.. Your stability...

One, single moment.

One moment
Frozen in time

One moment
Solidified as the moment when your entire world.. your entire being..
Ended.