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Tron* #quote
People ask you think outside the box, but what if there are neat
things inside the box? Like bubble wrap. Bubble wrap is fun. Pop,
pop, pop. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Is This Your Card?
“Is this your card?” said Joseph Byman, the street magician. The
impossible card trick made him famous. The person in the video was
proven time and again to not be in on it. Magicians all over could
not figure out what kind of slight of hand he used to figure out how
he managed to pull the woman's card from the deck.
She held the deck, picked the card, and showed it to the camera
before shuffling the deck and giving it back to him. He faced away
during the entire thing. The trick was filmed with a high quality
camera so every person that watched it could go frame by frame and
see if he did anything to the cards. He did nothing. He fanned out
the deck, and plucked her card from a random spot.
The truth was that Joseph Byman's first trick was his finest and
could never be done again. It took five weeks of him wandering the
streets to get the trick to happen. Because all he was doing was
waiting for the card to emerge from the deck by chance. Byman's trick
was no trick. Now that people knew his face he could no longer
perform a trick based on failure. But for the first time, when nobody
heard of him, Joseph simply walked away when he didn't pull the right
card apologizing for his mistake.
Joseph keeps the card from the impossible trick as a memento, and
something to motivate him to try to find something else impossible to
do. For now, the magician would first like you to think of a card...
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