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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Today's #Scifi #fantasy flash fiction #DimensionAges

“I got me some booty.”
Johnny Depp*


       Finished the rough draft of that short story and revised it. Working on the cover letter for the story. After that will probably be more editing and people looking at it.


Dimension Ages

       Earth gets ice ages. The world of Draaiy gets dimension ages. The amount of time between ice ages and dimension ages is different and is local. One place on a planet can be in a dimension age, another not. They are short enough to show up in the world's history. The longest a thousand years, many last a decade or two, several a hundred years.
       Dimension ages pull the fabrics of the worlds apart and blend things from other universes on a one way street into Draaiy. That's how humans entered Draaiy along with other creatures, Earthen and otherwise. A little girl named Katelyn entered during a dimension age when she was six.
Laws of physics can be pulled from other dimensions so during dimension ages it can change where chemicals will do new things and thoughts could suddenly make things explode. The fact that dimension ages were isolated to areas helped people survive when new laws of physics would have wiped them out. But when new laws would help them they thrived.
       It took Katelyn a week to stop calling her experience a dream and three years to accept the new parents who took her in. Taking in people from dimensional shifts had become a part of culture. Her adopted parents weren't even human. They were intelligent creatures from another dimension that shifted into Draaiy like Earth. They could be best described as slimey humanoid creatures. They spoke by vibration of their long blob limbs and they had a large head suspended in their middle with their shifting eye and brain. Somehow they didn't scare her. Maybe it was they walked or the way they spoke to her. Something about them that wasn't their bodies made her comfortable despite all the traumas of dimensional shift and the loss of her parents.
       Eventually the dimension ages became the familiar. And as she aged she didn't follow the pattern of some people who first fell into the world. Instead of seeking normalcy and fleeing into areas outside of a dimension age she seeked them out. She was always part of the pioneers that figured out what new strange laws or happenings were occurring with each new dimension that struck an area of the world.
She stopped for a man, and they traveled together until they found a dimension age where the laws of physics had changed so that the temperature was always perfect and the weather giving the perfect amount of rain for the right harvests to support a gentle cozy town nestled between some hills. Katelyn's parents spent the last of their age in that dimension age with them and saw Katelyn and her husband raise their kids in it.

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