2010

Ｅｒｉｃ Ｌｉｎ / English Dept. 4B

Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages

2010/5/19

The Vanishing

Contents

About the Author……………………………………. The Disappearing….…….…………………………… Clue……………………………………..………………….. Odd?....................……………………………………. Caught……………..…………………………………..…. The Recurrence……………………………………… Words Checked: 1791 Words in Oxford 3000: 95%

About the Author Eric Lin was born in America in May 7th

He was a outgoing young men who likes to

travel a lot, and spends most of he’s free time

riding around Taiwan island, and even though he

where now studding languages, he’s dream was to

become a pilot one day and spreads it wing in the

sky

1990.

And grew up in many places such as Canada,

Philippine, and also Taiwan, he was sent by his

folks to studied at Wenzao Ursuline College of

languages and majored in English and took

German as a second majored language.

This is the first piece of work he had ever made

and it might also be the last XD, Hope it brings a lot

of joys to the readers.

Chapter One

Seeing is not Believing

In the hottest day in Kaohsiung this year, when

the sun where so cruel to release almost more and

more heat to this poor humid city, Joe wakes up

and stare at the broken second handed air

conditioner which he just spent 6000NTD to bring

home yesterday, but unfortunately get broke right

after he settle it done. Joe’s parents die long time

ago in a terrible plane crash accident when they

are going to Europe for a trip.

In this day, Joe woke up and get on his little

scooter and went on the road, and soon he had

discover something very unusual, normally the

road will be completely full of people and cars

squeezing through to get to work and this kinds of

daily traffic jam will continue going all day till

almost 3 a.m. next day morning, but today!! It’s

already 7:45 and the road is completely empty

there are no people, no cars, no crowding bike

going through like hell, no shouting of breakfast

shop, not even students gathering for school…..the

whole place is just normal as usual, but the only

thing wrong with it, there is no people in the city

except Joe himself.

Joe started to panic, why!! Why there are no

people everywhere, what happened to them or

what happened to me!!! What is wrong with the

world?

( Joe started to think of clues and reasons for what

happened to all the people )

Then Joe heard something, a dog jump out of

nowhere and started to bark at Joe like crazy, then

runs in a great hurry even though Joe was still

confuse and shock still Joe followed this only

animal in this weird vanishing world.

After a great distance of following, Joe even

started to enjoy the weird empty city view, even

though it’s the most familiars place but still

without everyone in it, it just don’t seem that alike

to the city which is in Joe’s mind, the tall building

just as usual, the street are full with empty cars

parking at the side as usual, all the shop are

opened as usual, some lights are still on as usual,

and the adds wall on the train station is also keep

playing it’s adds but only no one was watching at it

anymore. The dog dash in to the train station and

disappear again and leave Joe alone to face this

strange emptiness, Joe entered the train station

trying to find some clue, he entered the great hall,

and felt spooky about the great big empty public

train station, the silent seem so fake that was like

everyone in the world is just hiding from Joe.

Joe started to realize that he got to move on even

though in these kinds of world, he started to look

for food in all the empty opened convenient shop

after the food shopping Joe went home for he’s

first free meal at this strange sitting at he’s sofa

doing nothing staring at the window hope to saw

anyone outside, suddenly an Earthquake shock the

world and a weird beam of light strike Joe’s house

and suck Joe away from the ground.

Chapter Two

Clue

Joe woke up again in his bed and felt the same

sorrow on his leg and the same and the same

weird felling, but he heard something odd….it the

sound, the sound of people, the sound of cars, the

sound of other people, Joe ran to the window and

looked out, everything is back to normal just if

yesterdays strange event never happened, Joe

where confuse, but still Joe went up and get ready

to work, on the way to work, dejavoo keep

showing up all the way, at first Joe don’t care

either but till then the same place and about the

same time the dog just come out of nowhere and

started to bark at Joe just as it had yesterday and

runs away in the same direction, Joe runs after it

and try to come up some conclusion in his mind or

at least find out why and what happened, soon Joe

started to found out that the dog are dashing in to

the great hall of the train station and disappeared

again in it.

Everything felt so real in the dream, and as it

right at this moment it’s so alike and so different at

the same time. The odd feeling overrun Joe’s head.

Then Joe saw a guy staring at him right across

the big crowded train station hall, which was a rare

feelings for Joe to handle since he had lost all of his

family member at such a young age, but the

shocking fact is that man in the black coat staring

at Joe looks almost alike to the weird dog that

showed him the direction in that vanishing odd

dream of his, and he was giving Joe the look to

followed him again.

Joe sneak through the great hall of the train

station and pass by all the crowds and followed the

man, through the market, the streets then to a

small alley.

“A QUESTION YOU HAVE?” said the man

“WHO ARE YOU?” ask back by Joe

“It is not who am I that matters, it is where you

are, and when is the last time you leave the city?”

Joe was shock by the words spitting out by the

man, but the fact is he really couldn’t remember,

although he still had the memory going to other

city with his parent when he was small, but he just

simply can’t think of how and where to go in order

to leave the city, it seems like all the road was

connected to each other and formed into a infinite

recurring by its self.

“Beware, don’t let THEM know”

Then the men walked into the wall like there

are just smoked to pass through, “THEM” he said,

who are “THEM”, and why can’t I figured it out a

way really to leave the city.

Joe started to look for ways out, drives out and

hangs out real hard but like what he had already

expected, he couldn’t find any of ways to leave the

city. And he also try to ask some of other peoples

for direction, but in the end he failed

Chapter Three

Odd

After the strange meeting with the man and the

discovery of the trapped city, Joe started to

observe more about the surroundings, and started

to realize that every single day after the weird

disappearing was almost like another, people in

the city started to act nearly the same every day,

walked in the same patters, and try to accomplish

the same events. And seems like every other

people aren’t that human like as they should.

“So, have you notes the differences?”

The man suddenly showed up and asks, this is

not at earth anymore. At least not the one Joe

knows

“Come”

Following the man again to the old alley

which he had disappeared last time, but this time a

door showed up, after both of them got in the

door vanished liked it never happened to be there,

inside the door there was a comfort room with two

single seated sofa with cozy light and nice mood,

the man was already seating in one of the sofa and

staring at Joe.

“Are you ready to know?”

Joe seated in the another sofa and started to

listen, the man’s name is Blackwood he was also a

human like Joe who was capture to place here in

order to do experience about human mind, but

Blackwood was captured much more early then

Joe, and have waken like him once and notes the

differences of this world, they have been

experience a lot and turns them into what they’ve

called “MixGen” like their name their Genetics

code has been mix quite a lot for studies, and yes

this is not earth anymore, the city Joe was living

was a simulation status for the experience target

to thought that they were still at home.

Chapter Four

Caught

Basically people like Joe or Blackwood are not

spouse to know any of these situations, but don’t

know why they had accidently waked up while

they were reorganizing the statutes, that is also

why Joe wakes up in a empty world.

Suddenly a same earthquake shock the world

again, but seem to only effect Joe and Blackwood

the same beam wasted by the location of their

chat, and vanishing everything though it’s path.

Chapter Five

Recurrence

Joe wakes up, again!! at his house forgetting

what happened last night with a feeling of

forgetting something really important, besides that

he felt just like how he felt again two days ago.

Getting ready to go to work and having his

breakfast on his way to work, walking through the

same roads he always did, pass by the very alley

that he had knottiest the truth of this world and

discovery the fact that they are not in the world

they think they are, but because of the memory

wash, he passes right by with only little feeling odd

about this dejavo deep inside, isn’t it like that as

always, no matters at realities or in the world of

Joe.

Just like other people in this world, having their

purpose on that day and moving for toward what

they’ve looking for not knowing that in fact they

are still in a dream, people might care about their

small issue, their wants and dislikes their sad and

joys, but what if we repeated the same day for a

thousand times already and none of us really notes,

what if where we are is not what we think we are

at, and we are just an scientific experiment of

some soured of highly intelligent alien’s school

project, when could we really saw the truth of it!?

To Be continued……