The Doorway
The Doorway
Free DownloadA man may wish he'd married his first love and not really mean it. But an insincere wish may turn ugly in dimensions unknown.
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most decisions are hardly as momentous as the individual imagines," Professor Falabella continued, "and since the imagination of the average individual is very limited, many of these different planes--or, as they are colloquially known, space-time continuums--may exist in close, even tangential relationship."
Gloria rose unobtrusively and took the teapot to the kitchen for a refill. Her husband stood by the sink moodily drinking whiskey out of the bottle so as to avoid having to wash a glass afterward.
"Bill, you're not being polite to our guests. Why don't you go out and listen to Professor Falabella?"
"I can hear him perfectly well from here," Bill muttered--and indeed the professor's mellifluous tones pervaded every nook and cranny of the thin-walled house. "Long-winded cultist! What is he a professor of, I'd like to know."
"Professor Falabella is not a cultist!" affirmed Gloria angrily. "He's a great philosopher."
Bill Hughes said something unprintable. "If I'd married Lucy Allison," he continued unkindly, "she'd never have filled the house with long-haired cultists on my so-called day of rest."
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Infuriated by the claptrap being spouted by the latest of his wife's mystical frauds, a husband calls the professor's bluff and tries to walk into another dimension.
Nothing too impressive, though the story does have a happy ending.
Nothing too impressive, though the story does have a happy ending.
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Cute and quick little short about parallel planes.
09/02/2011
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