The Nova effect

a person named Eric is on a stroll with his dog, Nova.

even as at the walk, Eric loses Nova

after she pulls the leash from his hand in pursuit of a rabbit

that takes place to leap out of a bush as they pass through it.

Eric chases after Nova but this only conjures up her to run faster,

till she completely eludes Eric's imaginative and prescient

continuing on her pursuit of the rabbit, that has, through now,

hidden somewhere within the different direction.

After a splendid deal of time passes, it turns into clear that Nova

has outrun her sense of orientation and is now misplaced.

Eric spends the rest of the day and the days following

trying to find Nova. He notifies buddies,

enlists friends and family to assist,

puts up symptoms, and so forth.

a week is going via,

nova remains lacking eric is devastated beyond comprehension

he thinks

about how horribly unfortunate it became that the rabbit

jumped out at just the incorrect time his hand function

simply in the wrong location to permit Nova to tug the leash from it

approximately some other week later, a female shows up at Eric's the front door,

she has Nova.

After nova and Eric reconnect in a chaotic, coronary heart-warming display of affection,

Eric thanks the lady.

She introduces herself and tells Eric her call is Vanessa.

She's beautiful, and approximately Eric's same age.

Eric and Vanessa talk for a touch at the same time as and seem to take to each other,

inside the following weeks they hang out numerous times

and matters is going so properly, they quickly start dating.

Eric unearths her to be truely fantastic, kind, humorous,

smart, spontaneous... all the proper buzzwords for a super

romantic companion in a story.

quickly, Eric and Vanessa fall in love,

the connection is everything one ought to fairly desire a dating to be.

erick thinks about how fortunate it turned into that vanessa changed into

who happend to be in the proper location on the right time

to discover and return Nova

a pair months move by way of,

Eric is using on his way to choose up Vanessa.

while using thru an intersection, Eric is T-boned at complete pace

with the aid of a driver who distractedly runs a purple mild

coming from the perpendicular aspect road.

Eric is knocked subconscious as he and his car are sent in a

thrashing 1080° spin.

An hour or so later, Eric reveals himself in a health center.

A doctor informs Eric of what has happened, and explains

that he has suffered a excessive head injury, and that they will need to run

some instantaneous checks as well as a mind test to decide the severity,

and if there is any threat of permanent mind damage

or internal bleeding.

As his awareness starts to more truely return to him,

Erick thinks about how unfortunate it become to been going

to get Vanessa within the specific path at the precise time

Eric is held in a single day on the health center.

day after today, the health practitioner comes in into Eric's room:

, the medical doctor asks.

, Eric replies.

, they medical doctor says.

, Eric responds.

confused, Eric says:

, says the medical doctor.

, Eric asks with an escalating stage of concern and confusion.

The health practitioner pauses for a second,

and Eric looks at him unaware of what this indicates.

"it is a tumor", the health practitioner is going directly to saying

, Eric asks.

"... we ran the brain experiment. due to the mind test

we determined the tumor. usually we simplest seize a tumor like this

"... because we located the tumor right now, though,

we cut it whilst it's still benign earlier than it became malignant

and grew into another regions of your brain,

which in nearly all cases will become fatal.

for the reason that it is nevertheless in this level, although, we must be capable of eliminate it almost totally

without any issue.

, the medical doctor concludes.

Eric begins to sense a weird, visceral tingling sensation

and becomes slightly disoriented.

Regardless, Eric seems round on the room.

He thinks approximately how fortunate he was

to having going to get Vanessa in the exact course

at that genuine time. He thinks about how lucky he changed into

to have gotten inside the vehicle accident.

He thinks approximately how weird it is to assume this.

in this second, Eric realizes how little he knows

about what something absolutely is.

That he has in no way and might by no means understand what exists on the alternative facet of

some thing that occurs to him or due to him,

irrespective of how appropriate or bad, lucky or unlucky

any of it'd seem.

Eric feels a strange, paradoxical experience of helplessness

and liberation.

about a week later, Eric undergoes brain surgical operation to eliminate the tumor.

The surgical treatment is a hit.

Eric is on the whole as true as new, with exception to a scar strolling down the aspect of his scalp

several days later, after being released from the clinic,

Eric is at domestic with Vanessa, recovering.

To get a few clean air,

he is taking Nova out for a stroll