“Boys,” Sarah-Maybeline said with a knowing look on her delicate features. She sat on Vanessa’s bed, her long dress bunched up beneath her. Vanessa sat at her desk and kept her head down on her math homework. “You know,” Sarah-Maybeline said, “you should really go for this football thing.” “Why on Earth would I do…… Continue reading The End of Infinity Part 4
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The End of Infinity Part 3
Vanessa’s panic attack, as Dr. Saunder explained it, turned out to be an isolated occurrence. In five years, she had not had another case of feeling like time had stopped and the air was no longer responding to attempts to breathe or move it, and this was so much for the better. Boys didn’t tend…… Continue reading The End of Infinity Part 3
The End of Infinity Part 2
Vanessa Koltrane lived a routine life with her family in a little town near the Adirondack mountains. When her school changed its dress code to allow girls to wear pants, she asked her mother to buy her a pair of blue jeans, but was sternly rebuked and sent to her room. She stared out of…… Continue reading The End of Infinity Part 2
The Sympathetic Universe: The End of Infinity Part 1
I’m going to start labeling my short stories set in “The Sympathetic Universe” separately. For installations after the first, I’ll include only the story title, and leave “The Sympathetic Universe” as a category. A yellow Prius screeched to a halt as Franklin Jones Watson crossed the street back to his apartment from Avengers: Endgame. Frank waved…… Continue reading The Sympathetic Universe: The End of Infinity Part 1