Flash Fiction
Vis Insita
- by Asher Wismer
- 365 Tomorrows, 17 May 2008 [webzine] [Webzine accessed at https://365tomorrows.com/05/17/vis-insita/ on 30 June 2021.]
Professor Rudnicki sits in a bar, bemoaning the particular mode of failure of his latest time travel.
Time is relative to our senses, space doubly so. What we perceive to be real is in fact the simple accumulation of expectation; we expect the glass to hold the whiskey, and we expect the whiskey to get us drunk, but only AFTER we drink it.
