What If

What if a hitchhiking ghost asked you to solve the mystery of how she died?
What if you could live on a space station in orbit around Earth?
What if the presidential election was all a hoax, arranged so that no thinking populace could possibly do anything other than elect candidate A?
What if magic was real for you for a day?
These are what I write for, to explore the boundaries of my world, to imagine what could be, if I just squinted right. The first question is the basis for a story I wrote called The Last Gumshoe and, hopefully, I can share more about it soon. The rest I've yet to explore directly on paper... but they're there and I'm sure stories will come crawling out of me eventually. That second question is having it's heyday right now in the wake of the Asgardia announcement. Everyone is suddenly curious what it would be like to colonize space. I'd like to think writers like Heinlein and Asimov are responsible. In a lot of ways, their works got us to the Moon... maybe they'll take us back there to live someday.
Not to be too political, but I do wonder if Trump didn't run just to help his old friend Hillary win. They look awfully chummy in some of those photos from the 90s. The fact that he is doing irreparable damage to the Republican Party is just gravy.
Magic being real for a day, of course, implies that it's not normally real. I'd like to think I'd be a responsible wizard, but let's be honest... my standard of living would greatly improve. I think we do live in a very magical universe, but control isn't something we're meant to have for more than a little bit at a time.
My two year old talks to invisible things and I'm laying here at night, hoping the invisible things aren't real. But what if....
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Published on October 20, 2016 22:29
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