Fate Deals The Cards

This is my submission for the January 2025 RR magazine contest, enjoy

Life can be hard, we all face grief, tragedy, pain and loss in our journeys. Sometimes the world seems like an endless rat race, where no one really ever finds the cheese at the end of the maze.

It can be easy to lose sight of the wonder of creation all around us… and beyond our mortal senses.

In the vast and endless gulfs of the limitless universe, many worlds spin and twirl through the stars. Beyond that which can be seen, lie deeper truths, farther reaches and stranger worlds, where life takes different forms, and not all of the ‘laws’ of reality are as strictly enforced.

This is the story of an ordinary young person, born in an ordinary world, living an ordinary life and suffering an ordinary death. He wasn’t born extraordinary, nor handsome, talented or wealthy; his death went largely unremarked, much like his life.

No one told Gary he wasn’t extraordinary, though.

Those who know, know.

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