It is the ninth day of May 2021 as I write this and it kinda feels to me as if the universe is trying to speak to me on some less than cosmic wavelength. Early in the year I thought about writing a short story with some sort of multiverse theme about it, something with the series from years gone by, Sliders, in mind.

The thought had hit me of having a main character slide down the bank of a park river only to discover when he comes back up that everything he knows has changed. He is still himself though those around him are not quite the same as what they were before he accidentally slid down that riverbank.

Then I thought that there would be no way that would be a short story, nothing along the lines of two or three thousand works and I didn't want to commit to anything new that easily could be over ten thousand words long in length for I have enough to get through as it is having taken everything I have written down to give a once over before putting it all, or most of it anyhow, back up.

Perhaps the universe itself really is trying to convince me to get to that story even if no one will ever read it. As in April of this year, I read two books back-to-back and I had done so unintentionally. The stories Dark Matter and The Midnight Library, both I have gone on about in previous posts, are multiverse stories.

I so happened to watch a movie this morning set on the same subject. Infinitum: Subject Unknown. Yeah, a multiverse story where the main character is more a test subject, a rat (so to speak) to be placed in the multiverse maze and observed once a way to enter and mess with the multiverse has been discovered.

I loved both the books I mentioned, and I enjoyed that film too. Perhaps the universe, or multiverse, is telling me to get to my story. Perhaps I will, in time, but not as of yet, but it is kinda weird how I came across three multiverse stories in quick succession or maybe it's not, maybe it is all subconscious or something. Anyhow ... life goes on.

Then again, if every decision we make or could have made exists somewhere out there in some other alternate reality, wouldn't there be somewhere within which I have already written that story? ...