A Frank Conversation Following An Epistolary Courtship
Dec 18th, 2023 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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How will you tell people we met? she asks.
I’ll say I’m a quantum anthropologist from a parallel reality who built a machine to peer beyond dimensional walls. That I spent years studying myriad earths twitching across infinite frequencies until, one day, I saw you through my viewfinder. Yes, I knew crossing the trans-dimensional bridge would buckle my reality’s foundations. I didn’t care. I’ll warn everyone, my love for you doomed a universe.
And you? he asks.
She shifts. Her shackles jingle. The guard clears his throat. The truth. I took first at the International Sasquatch Rodeo. You were runner-up.
From Guest Contributor Keith J. Powell
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