I gulped. I stared at the thousands of faces staring back at me. I stood on stage with a mic standing close to my face. It was eerily quiet and I didn’t know what to say. Wh- what’s the meaning of life? I gulped again, trying to construct words in my head. The meaning of life is simple, I said. It’s something us humans have to figure out through our journey in life. I thought what I said was pretty good. Everyone looked unimpressed with my words of wisdom. One man stood up from the crowd. He looked angry and I was scared. “Why did you call us humans? That’s insulting!” I saw that other people agreed too. What? I said, confused. I knew I was dreaming or stuck in a coma somewhere. Why was I here? This wasn’t adding up at all. Well thank you for your time, I said. I walked away from the mic and went back stage. The crew looked upset at me. An angry looking man came up to me.

“Hey Shaun what the fuck was that about? Why did you compare the audience to humans? This was aired!”

“I’m not Shaun!” I yelled

I didn’t understand what was happening? But they look like humans. Suddenly this man’s appearance shifted into a disgusting creature. I ran to the backstage door and scrambled out of there. I was in the city and it was no city I was familiar with. Where the hell am I? I knew my name was Shaun which sounded human. I placed my hands in my pocket and I found a wallet. I found an id of a creature. I had to be dreaming but where was I?