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Wrong Timeline: A Quantum Glitch Novella
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ISBN13: 9798275839746
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 24 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 24 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One cigarette. One glitch. Every life he could have lived came crashing in at once. On a quiet porch in Texas, Ivan smokes some old weed, and his reality shatters. Suddenly, he's flooded with thousands of timelines-every branch, every choice, every version of himself that died young or lived wrong. His skull feels like it's splitting as he holds them all, a superposition of existences that demands he prune them down, one phone call at a time, to survive. From toxic exes to lost friends, each conversation deletes a universe until only three remain. He chooses one, thinking he's saved himself. But a year later, the truth hits: he picked the wrong timeline. The other two still whisper in the dark, ghosts of murdered possibilities, while this right one has remade him-sharper mind, sleepless nights, a stranger in his own life.
The physicists can debate many-worlds and wave-function collapse all they want. I don't care about the theory anymore. I care that sometimes, in the quiet before dawn on the Slope, I can still feel the other two timelines breathing against the back of my neck like ghosts that know I murdered them.
Part quantum horror, part raw confession, Wrong Timeline is a mind-bending novella about grief, reality's fragility, and the cost of seeing behind the curtain. Inspired by a true event, it blurs fiction and fact, urging you to question your own branches. For fans of Philip K. Dick's alternate realities, Ted Chiang's philosophical sci-fi, and the ego-death dread of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
Read it like contraband. Because if this happened to him, it could happen to you.
Part quantum horror, part raw confession, Wrong Timeline is a mind-bending novella about grief, reality's fragility, and the cost of seeing behind the curtain. Inspired by a true event, it blurs fiction and fact, urging you to question your own branches. For fans of Philip K. Dick's alternate realities, Ted Chiang's philosophical sci-fi, and the ego-death dread of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
Read it like contraband. Because if this happened to him, it could happen to you.
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