“I can see my
house from here!”
Icarus* #quote
I pitched a talk show to some studio people today. They turned it
down because the title was “The Quiet Game”. I told them it was
metaphorical! What's wrong with them? Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Redwood's Chess Game
Husband and wife Mr. and Mrs. Redwood were possibly some of the
greatest chess players around, if not the greatest. They didn't play
in big tournaments though, mostly in private gatherings and against
each other. The happy couple were evenly matched. They beat each
other fifty percent of the time and not intentionally.
They loved chess and loved each other. But they wanted to spice up
their games. They needed to complicate their play. They heard of 3D
chess. But that wouldn't do. They wanted something crazier. Something
to really spice up the hobby that brought them together.
The their son couldn't believe what his parents built after coming
from a weekend at a friend's house. Mr. and Mrs. Redwood played chess
in a game room. A room especially decorated chess themed and centered
around a chess board. That's how much it was their favorite hobby.
The decorated chess room was nothing as it was before. Funhouse
mirrors covered the walls and spread through the room and attached to
the ceiling. In them he saw moving, distorted reflections of his
parents, but also many, many chessboards and chairs. With all the
mirrors he couldn't tell if they added five or fifty chessboards into
the room. He saw five images of his parents just entering the
fun-house of mirrors they built.
“Mom, Dad, what's going on here?”
They laughed in response with his mother explaining it to him,
“Dear, we invented mirror chess! It's the funnest thing really. We
should teach you right away! The biggest trick is
figuring out on which boards your opponent has made their moves, but there's so much more to it. You'll love it!”
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