The Time Traveller's Wife
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This is a cautionary tale of love, mathematics, and the innocuous.
C. Sean McGee
"I write weird books."
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The Time Traveller's Wife - C. Sean McGee
The Time Traveller’s Wife
A short story by
C. Sean McGee
The Time Traveller’s Wife
Copyright© C. Sean McGee
Rotting Flower
Published at Smashwords
Araraquara, Brazil 2015
Second Edition
All rights reserved. No sneaky business. No unauthorized anything.
All artwork and layout by c.seanmcgee
Woman Photo: Victor Tongdee
This short story was inspired by the song:
‘Every Day is Exactly the Same’ by Nine Inch Nails
…written under the influence of:
Book of Souls: Folio A by Secret Chiefs 3
For nenagh, and tomás
CHAPTERS
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Through the Wormhole of Sudden Applause
A Brief Introduction to Active Noise Reduction
Increment IV – licks, grooves, sweeps and tasty fills
If the Mouth is the Asshole of the Subconscious Mind, What then of the Sound of My Thoughts?
A Bushel of Salt
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You ever driven all night, really tired? You know, so tired that even if were to crash, you probably wouldn’t even feel a thing anyway? And then you get home or wherever the hell you’re going, and you take the keys out of the ignition and you think to yourself, ‘How the fuck did I get here?’ You can’t remember a bit of the journey. You were asleep or dreaming the whole time or something. You don’t know if you leaned into any of the turns and you can’t be sure or not if you ran over an animal or a mother pushing a pram across the street. The only thing you know is that you’re pretty sure this is where you’re supposed to be; home or work or the supermarket. You just, can’t remember for the life of you, how you got here. You ever felt that?
Sure. I try not to drive tired, on account of it being so dangerous, but yeah,
said Stefan, sipping his Mocha, I once drove through the night when I was in university with some friends you know, back in the days when you’re reckless and living like there’s no tomorrow. So anyway, we….
I feel that way about my life,
said John, twisting his cup back and forth, his cold and untouched coffee spilling in a single line over his index finger and onto the table.
Stefan was waving at a group of guys who had just piled off a coach and were slapping each other’s backs and high-fiving one another as they joked out loud about celebrities they’d love to fuck and how they’d do it to them. None of them seemed to notice, but that didn’t matter to Stefan. He kept waving anyway as if they had, as if it was just their way and he made a strange gesture with his fingers to no one in particular as if he were asking for two of something.
So who would you fuck?
he asked, turning back to John.
I don’t know man. Whoever.
No, seriously. Let’s say you could fuck whoever you wanted, and you could fuck them whatever way you wanted, and they weren’t you know, gonna make you feel dirty about it or nothing. Who would you fuck? How would you do it?
John and Stefan sat on the steps to the office building. Neither of them was in the way of passing workers but Stefan’s lingering stare and twitching ear grasped the lapels of busied and personal discourse, silently begging, like the basketball player nobody wants, to be picked to give his opinion, to share his thoughts, and to laugh as heartily as he saw the other guys doing.
I can’t remember a single choice I ever made,
said John, now shaking the cup so that the cold coffee stormed like a raging sea. I mean, I know who I am, and I know what I do. I know what I have to do and, for what I have to do, up to now, I know exactly what I’ve done and what I’ve still yet to do. And I know when it’s gonna be done. I just don’t know how the fuck I came to this point. I don’t know if I decided all of this or if it just settled around me while I was sleeping or something.
I’d fuck Jennifer Connelly. She has this natural beauty you know. Seductive and shapely but natural at the same time. Not many women have that. Like, she could be your neighbour or teaching your kid in school and yet at the same time, she has this super sexy side with massive tits, and you just know she’d make you cum in a second. Yeah, I’d definitely fuck Jennifer Connelly. I don’t think I’d want to do anything nasty, though. Probably just hold her or something. Spoon maybe.
I think I’m suicidal, but I’m not sure.
But if I did have to have nasty sex. I don’t know. Oprah maybe. Early nineties Oprah though. Frizzy hair, sugar on her fingers. No, wait, Ricki Lake. She was fucking hot, even when she was chubby. Can I bang two?
Stefan asked, looking at John with genuine concern rasping his brow.
John was staring at his reflection on the tips of his shoes. He always kept them at such a shine and his pants, they were never wrinkled and were ironed just right, so the pleats stuck out like the fold in his favourite novel. His shirt was a little big for him, but he tucked the length of it into his pants and lightly tugged on it, so the fold hung in a cool and professional manner over his buckle.
And his tie, it was the only one he had ever bought. It cost him nearly a hundred dollars at the time. It was silk, and the colour and pattern made it look like someone had spilt extravagant art down his neck and along his chest. Its colour was faded now and its texture was coarse; its fibres splitting into ugly tufts, looking less like a piece of art and more like a shitty sketch, etched on the back of a soiled napkin.
We live and we die,
said John.
If I could fuck them both, I’d probably fuck Ricki Lake in the ass and I’d lay Oprah on Ricki Lake’s back like a tablecloth and I’d just eat that early nineties pussy,
Stefan said, blowing raspberries into his hand as he mocked his ravenous sexual appetite. And I’d have to have Donahue commentating. He could be in the back, jerking off and talking about how big my cock is. But I don’t know
he said, perplexed. I don’t if I’d cum in Ricki Lake’s asshole or on Oprah’s tits or if I’d try and shoot on their faces you know. That would be hot.
I think maybe I’m depressed,
said John.
God. Lighten up It’s called ‘Who Would You Fuck?’ Not ‘How to be a Kill Joy’. What’s gotten into you anyway? You’re normally a lot more chipper than this. You’re so…
Choose your next words carefully,
John thought, imagining himself taking Stefan by a clump of his hair and beating his face against the rounded edge of the red-bricked stairs.
The opposite of full of life,
he said, between sips of his