Genre:
Short Story/ Time Travel/ Comedy
Description:
When
eccentric barista-cum-inventor Quinia Schmul casually tampers with
time while babysitting, she discovers some disturbing truths about
time looping and, as it were, spaghetti.
Philosophy
student Rand wants nothing more than to finish studying for his final
exam, but his girlfriend has other ideas. Quinia is working on a time
looping mechanism designed to give everyone more free time. He
predicts disaster, and of course he's right, but what he doesn't
expect is the scale of the problem and how reality can become quite
so skewed.
Come along
on a new kind of time travel adventure - a dizzying ride filled with
coffee, domestic disasters and logical paradoxes.”
Author:
“Karen
Kolodenko writes comedy, speculative fiction, nonfiction, and young
people's literature. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, she has lived
on both U.S. coasts. She enjoys carving wooden utensils, knitting,
making shoes out of leather, crafting bad puns, and recipe-free
cooking.”
Appraisal:
This is a
quirky little story. It was dizzying and lots of fun. Rand is head
over heels in love with Quinia and her head full of curly red hair.
She may be a bit ditzy but she has something working for her in that
odd head of hers. Rand must have thought so too. Uncomfortably beyond
his twenties he deserted a lucrative job in software support to take
a doctorate at a university big on theory and small on practical
applications smack in the middle of a global economic depression. He
felt certain that society was shifting towards a new philosophical
approach. So he is now studying a new specialty field called
foremodern philosophy.
With no
real scientific theory education Quinia loves inventing and dabbling
in quantum mechanics, random probability, and magic. At the moment it
is the theory of time that she is trying to manipulate. Is it linear,
circular, or squiggly like spaghetti? The biggest problem is she
knows just enough to get herself in trouble. Especially when she
factors in paradoxes. It is all utter nonsense but Quinia adores
nonsense and is able to pull Rand along with her random logic that he
can almost follow.
It was fun
trying to follow along with the dialogue between Rand and Quinia. If
you enjoy quick quirky reads that will leave you spinning and
questioning reality, this may be a story you will enjoy.
Format/Typo
Issues:
I came
across no issues with proofing or formatting.
Rating:
**** Four stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate
word count: 9-10,000 words
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