Yes, but there's a difference however, actual eternal life means staying the same age forever (like vampires, immortals, etc) whilst Tasha's 'method' has you repeat your childhood all over again (no memories of your former life until you grow older, new parents, the worst part is to repeat school all over again, etc) and the entire cycle repeats itself all over again (especially with Serena's case) hence living in a existence like that is purgatorial and nihilistic at the same time. See what I mean?
Actually, if you think about it, the only things someone like that would need to learn would be the more basic things, walking, talking, stuff like that, since once they began recovering their memories, they wouldn't really need to go to school. I think that an existence like that isn't purgatorial, since you'd be able to remember your old life and skills, and people like that, such as Serena, would be able to be with the people they love for a very long time. It would be a way to conserve some of the most brilliant minds. What would Albert Einstein or Plato or Aristotle have been able to discover if they were still alive?
"Actually, if you think about it, the only things someone like that would need to learn would be the more basic things, walking, talking, stuff like that, since once they began recovering their memories, they wouldn't really need to go to school."
Well did you read the story more carefully?
"Tasha lay alone on the couch, enjoying a brief period of rest while the children were all off at school and the housework all caught up for once."
It does mention that the kids (ex-unbirthees) do go to school even doing homework therefore literately repeating what that they already done in their previous lives over and over again.
Wow..thats an amazing story. I enjoy the mere fact of the entire family being soo open and excepting to the idea that most of them were forced to be childern but don't retaliate once old enough to remember. And instead, they enjoy watching and understanding. Great concept.
I guess the reason most of them don't retaliate is because their rather deep down inside terrified to do so seeing what their "mothers" were capable of...
Either that or most of them appreciated their "mothers" by offering them a twisted way of immortality or maybe their no longer human but rather walking parasites that feed off from humanity (or maybe their souls or something) while magically reducing them to infants while replacing their souls with their own essences (although they still have memories of their former hosts) and they become monsters like their "mothers" hence why they most of the time non-consensually unbirth regular humans to renew them into parasites like themselves and start "new families". Just my theories.
Probably not - the story's pretty well run its course, and I can't really think of a plotline that won't descend into the absurd. Er, farther than it is already, anyway.
Posted by ub_centaur 16 years ago Report
Not a big fan of non-consentual unbirth, but this was excellent. well done groblek.
Posted by Jannak 15 years ago Report
creepy story but good.
Posted by soldier148 15 years ago Report
so in a way tasha was providing a soon-to-be-apparent service of eternal life?
Posted by Jannak 15 years ago Report
Well more like a purgatorial cycle of repeating your whole life all over again than actual eternal life (living forever) actually.
Posted by soldier148 15 years ago Report
sortof eternal life :P
Posted by Jannak 15 years ago Report
Yes, but there's a difference however, actual eternal life means staying the same age forever (like vampires, immortals, etc) whilst Tasha's 'method' has you repeat your childhood all over again (no memories of your former life until you grow older, new parents, the worst part is to repeat school all over again, etc) and the entire cycle repeats itself all over again (especially with Serena's case) hence living in a existence like that is purgatorial and nihilistic at the same time. See what I mean?
Posted by soldier148 15 years ago Report
lol. i didnt mean for it to be a debate. XD
Posted by DRayElliott 10 years ago Report
Actually, if you think about it, the only things someone like that would need to learn would be the more basic things, walking, talking, stuff like that, since once they began recovering their memories, they wouldn't really need to go to school. I think that an existence like that isn't purgatorial, since you'd be able to remember your old life and skills, and people like that, such as Serena, would be able to be with the people they love for a very long time. It would be a way to conserve some of the most brilliant minds. What would Albert Einstein or Plato or Aristotle have been able to discover if they were still alive?
Posted by Jannak 10 years ago Report
"Actually, if you think about it, the only things someone like that would need to learn would be the more basic things, walking, talking, stuff like that, since once they began recovering their memories, they wouldn't really need to go to school."
Well did you read the story more carefully?
"Tasha lay alone on the couch, enjoying a brief period of rest while the children were all off at school and the housework all caught up for once."
It does mention that the kids (ex-unbirthees) do go to school even doing homework therefore literately repeating what that they already done in their previous lives over and over again.
Posted by Germantrooper 15 years ago Report
Wow..thats an amazing story. I enjoy the mere fact of the entire family being soo open and excepting to the idea that most of them were forced to be childern but don't retaliate once old enough to remember. And instead, they enjoy watching and understanding. Great concept.
Posted by Jannak 15 years ago Report
I guess the reason most of them don't retaliate is because their rather deep down inside terrified to do so seeing what their "mothers" were capable of...
Either that or most of them appreciated their "mothers" by offering them a twisted way of immortality or maybe their no longer human but rather walking parasites that feed off from humanity (or maybe their souls or something) while magically reducing them to infants while replacing their souls with their own essences (although they still have memories of their former hosts) and they become monsters like their "mothers" hence why they most of the time non-consensually unbirth regular humans to renew them into parasites like themselves and start "new families". Just my theories.
Posted by DRayElliott 10 years ago Report
I also don't think they're parasites, merely slaves to their biology.
Posted by dragonfred 14 years ago Report
well done!
Posted by soullesschao 14 years ago Report
Very good. Although I did find a few errors.
Grade: B+
Posted by soullesschao 14 years ago Report
Can I see a sequel or continuation?
Posted by Groblek 14 years ago Report
Probably not - the story's pretty well run its course, and I can't really think of a plotline that won't descend into the absurd. Er, farther than it is already, anyway.
Posted by Nightcrawler99 2 years ago Report
Over 13 years old and still amazing.