Rhymebawd pens another odd little story. Perhaps inspired by a movie that released a few weeks ago?
I took my shirt off, rolled it into a ball and tossed it out of the train. As soon as it left my hand, it disappeared. Literally. Vanished into thin air. Poof! Gone.“Did you see that?” I turned to ask the others but nobody was looking, nobody answered. I leaned out of the train and looked back, not that I would’ve been able to see anything in the darkness. I reached into my jeans and pulled out a handkerchief, crumpled it up and threw it out. I saw it fly out of my hand, stay in the air for a while and fall down in the distance. Maybe I’d just imagined it, maybe it was a trick of light or something.
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rhymebawd
Feb 26th, 2008 at 1:57 pm | #
Curious, curious. What movie would that be?
Ash
Feb 26th, 2008 at 3:00 pm | #
Jumper, based on a book by Stephen Gould. I’m guessing there are different physical principles at play in your story, but your protagonist “jumping” certainly reminded me of this movie
rhymebawd
Feb 26th, 2008 at 10:09 pm | #
Ah, ok. Haven’t got around to reading or seeing “Jumper”, but I can see what you mean. How was the movie, btw?
And, incidentally, the inspiration for the story lies in early McEwan
A
Feb 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm | #
Solid Geometry fan?