Elixir of Life

The man walked into the room. In the center stood a small round table. On the table sat two phials of clear liquid. A tag hung from each of the phials. The man felt a bit like Alice as he expected to see the words ‘DRINK ME’ written on the tags. He reached for the fist bottle and read the tag. ‘The Elixir of Life…’. He could see more writing on the other side but ignored it. Besides the important information he already read he already knew what was in this bottle, it was clearly labeled. As he removed the stopper on the phial labeled elixir of life, he saw the writing on the other tag, ‘Death…’. And as he poured the clear liquid down his throat the tag flipped over reveling the words ‘…Is in Both Phials.’ He quickly read the tag on the elixir of life, ‘…Is a Deadly Poison’. The man could feel his insides burn as the Elixir of Life ran its course. As a painful death crept over his body, his last coherent thought was about how he was planning to spend his immortality.