Life Story for Sale

It was 2045 and they wanted people to experiment with time travel. The equipment was iffy but my life was nothing but a train wreck so I thought why not try something new and different.

It couldn’t get worse and maybe it would be better but either way I wouldn’t be stuck here anymore or at least that was theory.

I am Jean Norm and I am from dimension 3965 or at least that’s what I say about it. I don’t know how anyone would count them and this isn’t a detail I care about.

I am not sure if this my take someone else’s. It’s kind of hard to tell when it’s just me, myself, and I with slightly different lives.

My first day at work I was put into a white suit like I was heading into space and I opened the caution door to see thousands of glowing strands of light. The controlled said touch a strand meant entering into another dimension. My mission was to find the one in which some CEO’s son was alive. I was to find out which

The first one I touched I saw a billboard of a woman laughing with man. It said Love’s Funny. And she looked a lot like me. Her name was Jean Norm.

There was tv at the gas station in which she was sharing that she didn’t have the best love life and it only made sense to make comedic jokes. She started as a writer and became the actor who was well known for being down on her luck and finding a guy just the same. Some duds and some studs and finally the guy who was just right for her.

After chasing what looked like the son, I saw him touch a strand out of nowhere. I went to touch the strand.

In this world there was a billboard with women looking sad, named Jean Norm. I looked her up and she had a tragic love life that caused her to write sad love songs and epically depressing ballads.

I catch him and he tells me what cured him.

Then I wondered how realizing these women had chosen to use their emotions as a form to make art and money.

That wasn’t what I chose to do. I don’t know if this story is mine or simply all about every me that I ended up meeting while on the job. But one choice can lead to same outcome with different results is what I took away from it all.