Weirdness Magnet
My writer’s group short story collection theme for next year is “The Supernatural That Walks Among Us.” I thought I’d give another go at a story I started years ago. It involves a Norse god and a young woman around whom the laws of physics like to go a little wonky. It was originally envisioned as a novel, but I’m going to try for a short story and cut out some of the extraneous elements.
This was another project started during my Great Books class, I think. Reading some of those old philosophers and learning even a little bit about quantum mechanics can pretty much throw your entire world view out of wack, and this was kinda the result.
This is the opening. It’ll probably need to be cut down for space and pacing, and maybe tweaked a bit to give it a more definite point of view. At any rate, it’s a start. Continue reading
