Today please follow me to Cindy Borgne's Dreamer's Perch for Day Four of the SLIPSTREAM blog tour.
And for your entertainment, here is the fourth installment of my short story, The Insanity of Zero (TIOZ).
Previous installments if you want to go back and have a read:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
SPOILER ALERT -- THIS PART OF MY SHORT STORY REVEALS SOMETHING INTEGRAL TO MY NOVEL, SLIPSTREAM. (I personally don't mind spoilers, but it drives some people nuts).
And for your entertainment, here is the fourth installment of my short story, The Insanity of Zero (TIOZ).
Previous installments if you want to go back and have a read:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
SPOILER ALERT -- THIS PART OF MY SHORT STORY REVEALS SOMETHING INTEGRAL TO MY NOVEL, SLIPSTREAM. (I personally don't mind spoilers, but it drives some people nuts).
“Humans
in a mirror universe to ours cracked the secret of the atom. It just so happened, that their experiment
took place in a location which destabilized the White Tower through a thin
membrane that separates our two worlds.”
“Pure
dumb luck then?”
“Yes. Sometimes, chaos just happens.”
“I
see,” Eve said. “I didn’t know there
were other universes.”
“I know
of at least two,” I told her. “Perhaps
there are more, but they’re not of my concern.
The other universe is home to a planet like this one, only it hasn’t
suffered global devastation and their civilization is far less progressed. The inhabitants call it Earth; somewhere on
their planet is a tower not unlike the one that destroyed your world. Both of these monolithic edifices were
created by my Master at the time the universe was forged billions of years
ago.”
“What
is the purpose of the towers?”
“They
are vaults for miraculous containers that execute a program that define the
laws of physics for both places. Things
such as the absolute top speed in the cosmos, why matter has mass, or the
inherent nature of the duality of light are expressed mathematically within
these containers. Without the boxes, the
universes would not exist. My powers as
well are defined by these programs, placed by the Creator. I’m the first failsafe.”
“The
first? Is there a second?”
“Yes.”
“What
is the second failsafe?”
“The
second failsafe is a ‘who’ and not a ‘what’.
He’s a boy, as yet unborn. He
won’t be born unless I fail. In this
unlikely eventuality, he will open his eyes on Earth for it will be unsafe for
him here. But some way or another, he’ll
find his way to the First City through the use of a power that I’m not allowed
to understand. I only know him by his
title, the ‘Technician of the Creator’,
and that he will be the last archangel.”
Read Part Five HERE.
Read Part Five HERE.
This just keeps getting better. (:
ReplyDeleteI would have liked to read, but since I'm planning to read Slipstream soon, I don't want to have it spoiled. :-D
ReplyDeleteAlready visited Cindy this morning.
ReplyDeleteOkay. Now I can't read because I don't want a spoiler, so I'll just wave today. :)
ReplyDeleteI already read Slipstream but can I still complain about spoilers anyway?
ReplyDeleteBest spoiler alert EVER. =]
ReplyDeleteUgh, haven't finished the first yet. However, spoilers don't bother me.
ReplyDeleteDammit. I have to skip this because I don't want to read the spoiler. Thanks for giving a proper warning, though!
ReplyDeleteI'm banking on my poor memory, so I doubt I'll remember these spoilers when I read the novel.
ReplyDeleteThat's not just a spoiler for Slipstream, it's major foreshadowing for... something.
ReplyDeleteOoh, nice info about the failsafe. A who, not a what. Great job working that in!
ReplyDeleteHeading over to Cindy's ... :)
ReplyDeleteI skipped the spoiler. I like surprises!
ReplyDeleteOkay...You sold me. =) Great job.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can use (the) Slipstream to make it over to Hawaii one of these days :)
ReplyDeleteI'll put some shrimp on the Barbie (but I'm not sure if that will affect the doll?)
I skipped over this because I'm only about 1/2 way through Slipstream, but i'll have to come back and read it when I'm done.
ReplyDeleteWill see you at Cindy's then, and will skip this until I read your novel. :)
ReplyDeleteThe Spoiler Alert was so bright and shiny, I couldn't look away.
ReplyDeleteInteresting story.
ReplyDeleteOhhh no spoiler alert for me... already read this:)
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