image of an egg

"Egg"

# 1

There’s something I noticed.

eggs lined up

Everyone lives in an egg.

But where’s mine?

a bear sitting inside an egg

I guess I don’t have one.

Maybe I’m weird.

Maybe I’m special.

animals inside jiggly eggs

Maybe this is my super power.

# 2

There’s something else I noticed.

different sized eggs lined up and bopping

Every egg is a different size.

I wonder why that is.

I wonder...

animals in eggs socializing

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a lone animal in an egg not socializing

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# 3

Today I noticed something strange.

There was a crack in an egg.

It was by far the biggest egg I’ve ever seen.

an animal inside a cracked egg

What happens when an egg breaks open?

I felt a looming dread

Are they going to die?

animal inside a severely cracked egg

Their egg is almost all the way open.

Nobody else seems to notice.

(Sound: egg cracking)

I can’t bear to look.

image of flashing light

I gingerly open my eyes.

image of a cracked egg shell
protagonist picks up a feather

“The bird fights its way out of the egg.
The egg is the world.
Who would be born must first destroy a world.”

— Hermann Hesse

The End