\"The Universe Blinked\"

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Description

A Very Short story about not what you think.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
It's after 2 a.m. When he dragged himself up the five flights to the flat he shares with his girlfriend, Onley, by focusing on the cold beer waiting for him and the fridge. Is he able to make the climb? It's time to decompress when it comes to hearing confessions. Priests and shrinks and hairdressers have nothing on a New York cabbie as he makes his way through the apartment quiet so as not to away Kathy Sue. He senses something's wrong, something missing or worse, something here that should not be here by the time he reaches the kitchen, he's dismissed these thoughts. After all, he's shaking off a 12 hour Saturday night shift in his rolling confessional. He opens the fridge, grabs a beer, closes the door, cracks the can and starts for the living room. Something faint and blinking catches his eyes, and then he knows all might be right in God's Heaven's but sure is ****. There's something amiss and Jake O. Rourke swirled. There it is, on the kitchen table, where it most certainly should not be. The expanding universe winks and beckons to him. He blinks, hoping his eyes were deceiving him and the expanding universe all its brightly colored stars and planets and Galaxies