Parallelities (1998)
Parallelities
“The pale young woman on his right was very pretty, Max decided. She must have made a beautiful corpse.
Teenagers cavorted in paroxysms of aimless delight while adults looked on tolerantly. Gulls swooped and snapped at errant french fries that tumbled like the softened feathers of Icarus from young fingers held too close to the sun. California girls sleek as the blond sea lions of south Australia strutted the boundary between sea, sky, and sand, inviting ogles and comparisons. In the midst of al...l this life, six ghosts discussed the transitory nature of life and existence.
“It’s kind of hard to explain,” Max began.
His elderly companion chipped in. “He’s been trying to educate me about it, and it still don’t make a whole lot of sense.”
“In the real world, in my world,” Max told them, “an amateur scientist invented a machine that generates a field that allows whoever is caught within that field to move between parallel worlds. Unfortunately, he had no idea how to turn it off, or negate the effects.MoreLess
Teenagers cavorted in paroxysms of aimless delight while adults looked on tolerantly. Gulls swooped and snapped at errant french fries that tumbled like the softened feathers of Icarus from young fingers held too close to the sun. California girls sleek as the blond sea lions of south Australia strutted the boundary between sea, sky, and sand, inviting ogles and comparisons. In the midst of al...l this life, six ghosts discussed the transitory nature of life and existence.
“It’s kind of hard to explain,” Max began.
His elderly companion chipped in. “He’s been trying to educate me about it, and it still don’t make a whole lot of sense.”
“In the real world, in my world,” Max told them, “an amateur scientist invented a machine that generates a field that allows whoever is caught within that field to move between parallel worlds. Unfortunately, he had no idea how to turn it off, or negate the effects.MoreLess
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