Hypertime: April First

[one_dc_nation]

The Monitors observe the various universes. One for each universe.

But then there's Hypertime. Hypertime, which weaves in and out of various other realities. Some of these shards of timelines are critical to the support of the crystalline fragile structure of some universes.

But there are many that are just plain silly.

Here are but a few.

Comments

[damage_girl]

"He-- said-- he-- loved-- me-- and-- then-- he-- Katie said he-- gave a note to Tracy! With little hearts!"

"So I told my mom 'I don't need that crap!' and I been to the principal's office a billion times!"

"I don't know why they keep sending me here. I just appreciate art."

"I think I'm a vampire, Ms. Bertrand."

Corrine sighs. She hates to admit it to herself, but she hadn't been listening to what James whatever-his-name is was saying. Every other week this kid thinks something strange and dramatic is happening to him.

The first time he was in her office, he said he'd been abducted by aliens. The second time, he was deciding whether or not to go with a 'friend' of his on a trip to India. He didn't go because the next week he was sure he had atherosclerosis and only a few days to live. (She had to secretly give him credit for that one, she had to look it up.)

"You're not a vampire," she says with confidence.

"But Lynn Demy bit me two days ago, right on the neck! And now I feel funny at night."

Corrine's pen falls on the floor and she snaps upright in her office chair. She coughs, turns red, and adjusts some papers on her desk. "Where did this happen, James?"

He makes a funny face and shrugs. "We were playing X-Box at my house, and she said she wanted to kiss me... so... I thought that was okay... and... I guess it was... But then she bit me!"

A hand tiredly rubs her face, and Corrine bends in her chair to pick up her pen. When she sits upright, she tries to smile and not laugh at the poor kid. "James... you're not a vampire. You're perfectly-good-the-way-he-is, smart, fourteen year old James... and I think Lynn Demy thinks you're just great, too."

"Even though she bit me?"

"...Yes. Even though she bit you."