William A. Neary

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“Stardust or Starbucks” by William A. Neary

Submitted to Contest #174

They built a future that could nearly last forever. I guess ‘nearly’ wasn’t good enough. It’ll happen a thousand years from now, but we can already feel the effects, seeing things that are gone or never existed, remembering things that hadn’t happened. Whatever they’ll do, or ‘did’ from their perspective, caused problems with all the timelines, this one and the ones beside us. I didn’t know we had those... parallel timelines. That’s all I can gather so far. Baffle doesn’t explain things very well. He’s a trans-human being from five hundred y...

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I'm a narrative writer at heart and a technical designer by trade. Having focused on screenwriting with encouraging results, I've returned to short stories for much-needed perspective.