Before I started rock nyc I wrote short stories by the truckload but this website takes up so much writing, I have no brain cells left to tackle fiction. Which doesn't stop me from thinking up stories but just not writing them.
Like this one, which I'm not gonna write, I'm just gonna tell you about.
The title is "No Baby I" -from an Old 97's song.
A man dated a woman for five years from 25 – 30 years old, when she left him for another man.
Five years later and it is a summer morning and he is lying in bed and he hasn't recovered. He thinks of her. Closes his eyes. Opens them. And she is in bed next to him.
He doesn't know what happened or why, but it is an alternative reality, they married, they're happy, they are living in Miami, and they have a 4 year old son.
Happy day, he grabs her, makes love to her, etc., meanwhile their son has got out of his room, ends up in the swimming pool and drowns.
Uh oh. The woman breaks down, the family is going crazy, everybody is guilty. The woman blames herself and decides to kill herself because
a) if there is an afterlife, she can be with him
b) if there isn't, she has only lost her life.
They fight over the gun and to stop her, the man shoots himself.
Bing bang boom -he joins his son between life and death, his son is furious, if his dad hadn't returned it wouldn't have happened, shouldn't have happened.
Blah, blah, blah, they get the man back to his own time and he awakes alone at his real time.
but now the man is obsessed, who is this kid? Could it really be his son? The timing is right, it is possible.
So he goes to his exes house and has a huge fight, pushes her away, the boy looks like him. The ex is going crazy, he is upset, he wants a paternity test. She convinces him he will destroy the boys life.
The man leaves and goes in search of a way to return to the alternate reality before his son dies. he goes to psychics, mediums, scientists, new agers and they are all charlatans but finally he finds a man who hypnotizes him to awake in the alternate world.
It doesn't work. he goes home.. Lies on his bed. Closes his eyes, open them. He is back on the day before his son dies with the woman.
He takes her, takes his son, loads them in the car and drives off, he drives and drives and drives till the afternoon becomes night becomes sunrise. And then he stops at a motel and they go to sleep.
The End!