This would be a crazy story, about a person who falls (falls sounds weird here) in a black hole. The story would be told from his point. And what would happen in a split second could be a lifetime for the person. Disregard the effects on his body, we would only look from his brain/mind point. And the last page would be a thought that goes on and on and never stops.
THE CORE PREMISE
A person approaches a black hole, and in the final instant before crossing the event horizon, time dilates so intensely that a single second becomes a subjective eternity.
The story is told entirely from their point of view, inside that infinitely stretched final thought.
STORY STRUCTURE IDEA
Title: Event Horizon
Or something metaphorical like The Final Thought, Forever Falling, The Edge of Now.
- Opening
He’s falling into the black hole, maybe as part of a mission or escape or accident. He knows he’s going to die. There’s tension. But as he gets closer, things feel… strange. Thoughts get longer. Details sharper. Time feels “thicker.”
- Middle
His internal world stretches. A memory takes what feels like hours. He revisits his life. Regrets. Joys. Imaginary conversations. Maybe even starts creating things—stories, fantasies, imaginary worlds. The brain becomes a universe.
“He built a city in his mind. Populated it. Grew old in it.”
- Twist
He realizes he’s not remembering anymore. He’s creating new time. He’s not falling anymore—he’s becoming something else. Maybe he wonders: “Am I dead yet?” But there’s no answer.
- Ending
Something like:
“And then it hit him, all at once, the thing he had never quite understood, the thing that would explain everything if he could just—”
As the last thought seems to just hang there, then as the camera slowly pulls away now to the outside of his mind to his body, his thought start to go in reverse, slowly at first, then speeding up as they were being replayed all in reverse and in a brief moment in time. Then nothing. The camera pans out to see the ship crush to a singularity in a nano second.
[End.]
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