The Table at the End of the World

a story about a lifeless object watching the end of the world

It was an ordinary table, a usual wooden table that you will see at school. Made by a nameless carpenter as a very normal table, yet has a chance to see the end of the world by its luck. The world, which has no more humans and animals as they were already extinct, now filled with non-living objects.

What’s the purpose of these soulless objects when nothing can use them anymore?

Simple, they wait for their destruction and crumble into nothingness.

After certain time, the world was at the edge. Everything has reached their limits, everything slowly crumble into dust and then disappear for eternity. Yes, everything, except the Table.

When they all vanished into nothingness, the Table still maintained its firm shape. When the planet, even when the stars turned into dusts and even when the lights disappeared into darkness, the Table still in its perfect shape, floating in the darkness. It was just a table, yet being the only thing survived, it began to have soul. The Table assumed itself as a God since it was the only one that didn’t disappear. It was so happy and then tried to create a new world as a God.

However, as soon as the Table created light, the scene of destruction returned upon the world. The Table got confused and tried to do something, but it returned into an ordinary Table, without feeling, soul, or anything. It can only watch everything disappeared into nothingness, including itself. The Table realized that it only dreamed of itself being God. However it got lucky again for being the last thing to dissipate.

When the Table turned into dust, it witnessed a very bizarre scene. The object right in front of the Table did not disappear despite the lights already turned into darkness. The Table slowly got eaten by void, yet that object still fine.

The Table finally disappeared, its final moment filled with nothingness since the Table was not living being. In the middle of darkness, something floated in front of the space which originally occupied by the Table.

The object that rule the “current” world.

That object is…

A Chair