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The Inland Journey
I had found a way to travel in time, with certain restrictions. For some reason the method worked only within my own life and within my own body, and since I had never been a…
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No Stops
On a train. The conductor asks for my ticket. I realise I haven’t bought one. I ask:
“All right, where is this train heading?”
She replies:
“How should I know? Do I look like I work here?”
The train doesn’t stop anywhere. It just keeps going and going. I close my eyes for a bit.
When I open them, I’m lying in someone’s arms. I’m a baby.
“Damn. Something’s gone wrong with the switching,” I try to say, but I’m a baby.
Let chance choose the next story
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Everyone’s Talking to Me
The first second of a day that doesn’t need its week: awakening. There’s clatter in the kitchen. Oh right, I’m me. Oh right, I’m at my second cousin’s in Lund. We drink instant…
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What Doesn’t Hurt You
The executor of the will observed that, broadly speaking, the father had left behind only two assets of any significance: first, a unique Märklin Spur 0 collection from the 1920s…