At twenty-three, a young man is offered one wish by a mysterious being.

He asks to live forever.

At first, immortality is everything he imagined. No fear of death. No limits. No reason to hurry. He can explore the world, master every skill, fall in love, and experience everything life has to offer.

But there's something he never considered.

Everyone else still dies.

As centuries become millennia, he watches the people he loves grow old and disappear. Civilizations rise and collapse. Humanity reaches for the stars. And the man who cannot die begins to discover the terrible difference between living forever and wanting to.

How long can someone endure eternity?

And what happens when there's nothing left to live for?

Memoir of an Immortal Man is an original science-fiction story by Raj Shankar exploring immortality, love, grief, memory, and the extraordinary burden of existing beyond the limits of time.

A haunting journey from one man's bedroom to the farthest reaches of the universe, where the greatest gift imaginable may become the cruelest curse.

Tonight's impossible choice:

If you could live forever, knowing everyone you love eventually must leave you, would you still choose immortality?

🎙️ Impossible Choices features original, thought-provoking short fiction written and narrated by Raj Shankar. Every story leaves you with a question that refuses to let go.

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