Today's #Scifi #fantasy #flashfiction #QuickerThanTime

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Ferris Bueller*

      Today I have a writers meeting. Later while mother has her writers meeting with her writers friend I, alongside father will go along with her husband on an epic adventure. There may or may not be dragon slaying and the Epic adventure may or may not resemble going out to a restaurant and doing nothing of great significance.

Quicker Than Time

        Traveling faster than the speed of light was no problem for Sally. Neither was doing anything within a second. Though “faster” and “within” would be difficult for her to understand and wouldn't exactly be how she surpassed limitations. Telling any sort of story about her would be lying. Saying Sally jumped would be a lie as would Sally will jump. The reason? She was many of what was called “reality phantoms”. (Least that's the name given to them by the local wizards, next universe over probably cooked up some other name).

      Reality phantoms exist across all at once from the “start” of their life to the “end” of it. Their body stretches through time. Seeing the days ahead of them would be like seeing across their arm. They can do whatever when they want along their body. Humans have a rough time quite getting how these phantoms operate so to best explain here's what Sally said to a wizard who asked her what its like how she does what she does:

      “It's not like I time travel through my life. It's like I have no time almost. It took me awhile to understand your perception and movement through time actually. Its like this: When I write a book I don't think of a sentence at a one at time while I go along. I think of them all at once and compile them as my entire life is all one massive instant across every moment of myself.”

       Though she struggled with her own book example. She wrote an autobiography but it was hardly cohesive or engaging. She couldn't come up with any idea in her head of how to express herself in the way humans perceive time in an easily readable way. Methodically describing every single thing she did after her birth was the only thing fathomable to her. Thus the reality phantom's story in the end was actually written in an instant but read like an incredibly long, long journal or log with her human friends given her the best advice they could on pacing. She presented herself in her book in almost a calendar fashion.

      It actually made her sad to have no past or future or true meaning of it.