Author
Tim Patterson
I wrote this story to explore why and how relationships last. Is it the small things that combine to create the relationship? Or is it necessarily something more? The science fiction conceit of the story attempts to frame those questions. It allows each of the two characters, I hope, to be contrasted against a range of possible selves. As a result, their relationship can, in some way, comment on every relationship.
- Tim Patterson
The value of folding space
The first time I folded space, I did so to cheat at hide-and-seek. It was purely by accident, and despite winning the game rather quickly, I didn't really understand what I'd done, not yet. It was several years before I found that I could move through my folds in space, that…
Small Differences
She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "So you're not Jack," she said. It wasn't a question. "You're not Sarah," he replied. He went to the cupboard to get her favourite mug. There were two of them, so he grabbed both. Then he poured boiling water into them. "What kind of…