Wormhole

by Risa Peris

Maggie, the wife of a scientist working at Los Alamos, witnesses the testing of the atomic bomb. She soon finds herself on a journey through time and space and attempts to understand her life, purpose and love.

16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2013

About the author

The author, when not writing, dreams of having a chicken sanctuary, a sloth as a walking partner, and a refrigerator full of cheesecake. She loves polka dots, mixing cocktails, and mysteries – from Sherlock Holmes to the quirkiness of quantum stuff. She has published three books and is feverishly at work on a few screenplays as well as a horror book that takes place in the Arctic, when not writing short stories. She comes from a land that is occasionally full of fire, floods, rumbling earth, famous people, and with a tendency to riot – California. The author has a blog, The 200 Word Short Story that has been running since 2017. We've cracked 500,000 views.

She has published several books and short stories. All are available on Amazon.

Books:

Boogeyman Land
Girl Crucified
The Monster Enjoys Elderberry Jam
The Lovely Savage
When a Child Disappears

Reviews

[Sheila · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't want to be overly critical of this short story. I didn't hate it, but I certainly didn't love it either. It was just okay for me. I will admit that I downloaded it solely based on the fact that it was set in Los Alamos during the testing of the atomic bomb. I am on a Los Alamos reading binge right now, so I picked this up only for that reason.

The story is very short, yet I felt it was overly descriptively wordy. It felt like a creative writing assignment for school, more than and actual story itself. I also will admit I didn't understand the purpose of the story. For me it was basically a version of Alice In Wonderland, set on a bus returning from Los Alamos. Why the Los Alamos setting? Was that just to give some plausibility to the time-travel theory? Was it really time travel? Or as in Alice In Wonderland, was this all just a dream?

Anyway, it was not what I was expecting, but there is probably an audience that would enjoy this, and it might be a good example of this author's writing style, and it is available for free download for those who are interested in checking it out.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was ok. It was not what I expected.

[Art · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting. It prompted googling, pondering and discussion. Good job!

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clever story. Loved it. Very whimsical expression of physics made it quite intriguing thinking of the why and how. Makes me want to go study quantum physics again....