“It's what's on the inside that counts.”
The Invisible Man* #quote
I wondered, around election time in Oz, do they repave the Yellow
Brick Road? Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Robert The Timeologist
Robert the timeologist(he hadn't invented a better name for the new
science he created) could look at the time lines of all the universes
with a device he invented. In one a dinosaur could be moving at one
half the speed as a student playing basketball on a court in another
world. These worlds were not simple variations of each other either.
They did not share exact histories or futures. Though several of
their histories did have moon landings, only a few had dragons and
only most had locomotives. The god of time had no influence on the
worlds he saw. He felt things as he watched the creatures in the
worlds, he cared for them. He smiled for them, he cried for them.
Over the years he honed the device to become as easy as watching TV
but with everything real he became enraptured with observing. So much
so he never shared his device with anyone and became oblivious to his
own time line except for the little work he needed for the day to
day. They called him a shut in, but they were wrong. Robert did open
himself up, just to every world but his own.
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