Fan

Estimated time to read: 2 minutes

The fan hung lazily and looked at the other occupants of the room - A lamp, a table, a chair and a human. The human seemed lost in thought. And he didn't seem like he would be getting off the chair anytime soon. Which meant the fan wouldn't have to move anytime soon either. That was a relief. It sighed noiselessly. As its eyes drifted from one wing to another looking at through its limited, yet relatively broad perspectives, it got a different angled view of the room everytime. It wondered what the human was thinking about. He didn't seem to do much at all. He always sat there for most of the day, except to get up and look through a slit in the door and yell at a passerby (what what could be made out) - the fan had learnt a lot of what we humans take for granted, purely by observing and listening over the time it had hung around in the room since its time of installation. Two years . Had it only been that long? It had spun so much, that it felt a bit more woozy everytime. And maybe it was imagining things but it seemed to be descending a bit more of late. Oh well. The mind, even a metallic one can play tricks on you if you're as dizzy as you were after tens of minutes of spinning.
It jerked out of its reverie as the man got up from his chair.
"Oh boy. Here we go again", it thought to itself.
He walked up to the only switch on the wall and turned it on.
Slowly, the fan began to spin. 30 rpm....60 rpm...130 rpm...200 rpm..All the way upto its maximum set 350 rpm. The fan felt breathless at this point. It wasn't a new sensation, but this time, it felt a bit more breathless than usual. It gave in and tried to become one with the spin.
But something...something was wrong.
The stem gave way and jerked away from the ceiling, tipping to one side first and within the fan could realize it, the cable connecting it to the ceiling Snapped and it spun at an angle, into the air, in an arc and towards the unsuspecting man.
The fan closed its eyes as it unintentionally sliced the man's head clean in two and crashed into the wall opposite his seat just above the table.
It tried to open its eyes...No..eye..The other eye seemed to be missing. And it realized that it had no sensation anywhere else. But it didn't matter.
The spinning had stopped.

PS - Please don't be alarmed. This is only ...a fan fiction....😂🧐 I'm sorry for the nightmares.