All Man
Science fiction Four short stories.
"Safety Switch" - It’s not always good to be popular.
"What's the Time, Mr Human?" - When you're the last one left standing.
"Resurrection #59" - First visitors to Earth discover just one crazy thing.
"All Man" - A teenager’s solitary existence on Earth is about to change.
Excerpt
(From "All Man")
WHEN ZEPHANIAH KOFI WOKE up, he was lying in a field with daisies and foxgloves wrapping him like a burrito. Thousands of other similarly wrapped shapes littered the ground. Looking up at blue sky, he wondered vaguely if this had been another one of his suicides.
Were these all his other bodies? Had the Scientitians finally ceased their experiments and dumped him in his personal graveyard? He knew he hadn’t fallen and knocked himself out running from danger. Running was exercise—something of which he had little need.
He recalled being a 240 lbs 17-year-old from Pimlico with a life that revolved around pizza and Pepsi. Then one day, he’d fallen asleep on his mum’s sofa watching Match of the Day. When he woke up, he was thin and alone.