The Cure

Only he knew what he had done. Marcus released the deadly virus into the environment accidentally.

He spent the next three-years working on a way to rectify his mistake. Nothing Marcus found had any effect on the continuing pandemic he’d caused.

Finally, he began to think beyond ‘flattening the curve.’ Instead, Marcus started working on a radical theory, that if successful, would not only flatten it, but end it altogether.

During the seventh-month of the fourth year, Marcus climbed into his invention, knowing what must be done and vanished.

The capsule vibrated violently and the multitude of lights, with their random bursts of colors, were disorientating for him, but the thing worked. Marcus arrived safely, destroying the capsule where it had landed, before proceeding to his laboratory.

Four-years earlier, Marcus confronted himself and as planned, shot and killed himself. He didn’t feel a thing as he blinked out of existence, smoking pistol still in hand, and all the while thinking, “Whaddya know, Einstein was right.”