Three Days To Never by Tim Powers by Three Days To Never (V1.0)

Author:Three Days To Never (V1.0) [Never, Three Days To]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-11-15T01:00:43+00:00

And then in the early months of 2006 he had begun to have vivid halucinations of a different life, a Life B. In this other life he had not married Amber, and Daphne was stil alive, stil with him, and the two of them were living in a trailer park on Base Line. Moira, a widow by this time, had long since bought out his share of Grammar's house, and was living in it, and had got restraining orders against both him and Daphne. Daphne was thirty-one, and an alcoholic, and she hated her alcoholic father. And, truthfuly, by that time he had hated her, and himself too.

In both lives twelve-year-old Daphne had watched Grammar's movie, helplessly, al the way through, while he had been up the hal in his office grading papers; when he had eventualy come down the hal to make dinner he had found Daphne stil staring at the blank screen. He had ejected the tape and hidden it. That night Daphne had begun to have difficulty swalowing her food.

And though in his original life, Life A, Daphne had choked to death on the floor of Alfredo's the next day, in the intrusive halucinatory Life B he had punched a hole in her throat, and she had not died; but when she had recovered from the surgery she had written u cut my throat… i hate you on the pad beside her hospital bed. And from then on she had seemed to be possessed by a spiteful, hateful devil.

He could see now that it had been merciful, in the original story of his life, that she had died on the restaurant floor.

The Life B halucinations had become so frequent and prolonged that he had had to take a leave from teaching, and eventualy he honestly didn't know which life was his real one.

He was the single father of the adult Daphne as often as he was the childless husband of Amber.

Then he was simply living with Daphne in the trailer, and the life with Amber was a less and less frequent dream. And by April 2006

those dreams had stopped. He was stuck in the drink-fogged trailer life with his angry, drunk, adult daughter — though he could stil remember his original life.

Why would my past change, in this way? he wondered. Why did this 1987 Frank Marrity do the tracheotomy yesterday, when in my original time line I did not do it?

It must be that the Harmonic Convergence, that sudden drop in worldwide mind pressure, caused a crack in the continuity, alowed a brief gap — like an unstable seam between two pours of cement

— in which some new variable could make things resume in a different way.

So in this skewed history, Marrity did not marry Amber; by the time Daphne was twenty-two, she was a dedicated alcoholic, and so was he; and when she was twenty-seven, in 2002, she took his car keys and he blundered out of the trailer to stand behind the battered Ford Taurus to prevent her from taking it.

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