Misty Day: A Short Story

It was a dull misty day, just like how Michael's family felt, in the hospital room where Michael lays as stiff as a rock with no impulse in motion. A nurse comes in and informs the family that Michael is no longer in their present and notifies them that she is to remove the body. The nurse carefully places the body into the morgue and closes the door where the deceased fades into complete darkness. Suddenly, Michael is mumbling in his sleep, but this mumble consisted of strange popping noise like he was under water. He awakens to a blurry sight, but as it clears he awakens to the viewing of blue coral in the ocean. In complete horror, he swims hastily up to sea level, however, as soon as he submerges his airways were parched and immediately

When he tries to speak, the only thing that comes out is the popping noise he repeated in his dream. The fish turn to him and repeats the popping noise, but Michael doesn’t understand anything and so he freaks out and swims away. Michael doesn’t understand, he’s been reincarnated into a fish, yet can’t seem to function as a fish because he only has the mindset of a human. A few days later, Michael still struggles to adapt to his new life, to frighten to go out he hides away in the dark to avoid predators. So far, Michael has been bullied by other fish, been in a battle with a sea lion, almost cannibalized by a catfish, nearly suffocated when sleeping (daydreaming) for not containing the flow of water for his gills to maintain the proper oxygen level, and still can’t figure out why he still remembers his past human life. While Michael falls to sleep (the right way), he falls deeper and deeper to sleep where his surroundings fade to dark, just like it did when he perished as a human. As far as he knows, he is still a fish, but in actuality, he is not. Michael is still, in fact, a dead human who is intensely sleeping in his grave to where it feels as if he’s been