The Magical Sun-Drop

Story by Ben

It’s 1941 and in the combat of WWII. I just got shot in the middle of my head without my helmet on. Yet, I did not die. The fact that I did not die was a miracle or just a lucky or weird happening. I am twenty-seven and I have a wife that I married before the war. It had been four years since I had last been in the states after returning. Time had passed, about two years and my wife and I started to notice that it seemed that people changed a little more than we did. People are our age started to look older and we didn’t. In made me think of getting shot in the head and not dying. Four years later I went on a hunting trip. I was making a new ground blind and I needed some more wood. So I found my old stand that I used before the war. In that very stand I found a bottle of Sun Drop. I t was weird though, the bottle was from nine years ago and the soda was still carbonated. It also still had its original color. The thing is though that my wife and I were the last people to be this stand. No other hunter knew about the stand, so the soda must be nine years old. Well that’s when it struck me; the Sun Drop in the stand is what made my wife and me everlasting. So it had to be the soda. At first I thought this was good, but then our family and friends started to die. This made us , sort of want to die in later years to come. Well, seeing how we couldn’t die we traveled the world and learned to speak 17 different languages. I served in 12 different wars, always carefully choosing the right side. Our lives haven’t been the best, but it hasn’t been bad. We do what we can with what’s been done.