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fandomsecrets2012-08-19 03:19 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-08-19 03:19 pm
[ SECRET POST #2056 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2056 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Does anyone know this short story?
(Anonymous) 2012-08-19 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)It's about two guys in a tiny spaceship in some futuristic setting. One's the first-person narrator, who's this cynical shallow douchebag, and one's this shy, nerdy, quiet guy who mainly just follows the first guy's lead. They come across two women in another tiny spaceship, a pretty bubbly ditzy one, and a grouchy untalkative one with a monobrow and giant boots. The narrator wants to get some action, so he convinces the nerdy guy to come onto the women's spaceship to meet up with them.
After the women keep asking questions, it's finally revealed (to the women and the readers at the same time, because of how the narrative is set up) that the two guys know that the universe is going to end in an hour or so, and their job is to go back in time every few hours to a few hours before the end of the universe to...collect energy or antimatter or something (can't remember the specifics), and that's what they do all day, every day, over and over and over, just watch the universe almost come to an end before escaping back in time again. I don't know, but I think the guys might've been aliens (I can't remember too well).
They think the women are going to throw a shit fit, but they don't. They're just stunned and no one knows what to say and it's all awkward. The narrator tells the nerdy guy to come along back to their own spaceship, but the nerdy guy tells him no, he's sick of sitting around trapped in the stretch of time just before the universe ends doing the same shit over and over, and he's going to stay with the women and die with them.
The narrator rants and raves and curses and pleads to no avail, and finally storms back to his spaceship and takes off, and thinks about his lot in life and his job and wonders what it would be like to let himself die.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Re: Does anyone know this short story?