"What?"
I was stood on an endless whiteness with a something that looked like a me hailing me from thirty feet. He was very still.
"Don't take so much as a single step."
"What?"
"Distance doesn't work the same way here."
"What?"
"Neil, we know this stuff, you remember the discrete metric, you remember that Greek guy..."
"Euclid?"
"Him. Well it doesn't work that way here."
"What?"
I must have taken a step, or shuffled, because I was suddenly about a mile away from the other me. He was just a black dot on the whiteness. A mobile phone that I didn't know that I had rang in my pocket.
"Don't do that again. Do you want to be lost here?" My voice said when I eventually managed to get the thing working.
"Why is my personal metric working?" I asked.
The phone went dead and things started to get weird.
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"You can choose the blue pill or the red pill Neo, it's your choice"New comment
intriguing. Keep going.New comment
Brilliant Neil(stand up..sorry
)...I love writing like this...
'..and then things started to get weird.'..a herd of wild mobile phones rushed past me..I don't know what had startled them...and then a janitor coffee machine asked me to move so I knew something could see me...so rude those coffee machines...always hyper
'(sorry could'nt help riffing on your story..its so cool...all scientists write cool stories)...very Michael Marshall Smith..brilliant!
Be Well
Anthony..
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Hi Neil,
I enjoyed this, please, please post more
Debs.