A Story In
100 Words
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You are invited to the wonderful world of microfiction. Whether you’re a reader, a writer, or one of our future robot overlords, welcome! A Story In 100 Words is a community of literature enthusiasts no matter the length, but we have a special predilection for narratives exactly 100 words in length.
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Palimpsest
They are faint echoes coloring every moment of my continued existence. You can't call them memories, not exactly, because they never actually occurred. They are more like dreams. Or possibilities.
Either way, I am haunted.
They say--and by they, I mean the quantum physicists--that prior to its observation, a particle exists in superposition, in every possible quantum state simultaneously. I know this to be true. My world, ever since the moment of the accident, has become superpositioned. There is the world in which she died, or the world in which she's still alive, and they exist in parallel.
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