ODD? by Jeff VanderMeer

Author:Jeff VanderMeer [VanderMeer, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: short story, anthology, odd
Publisher: Cheeky Frawg
Published: 2011-10-09T06:00:00+00:00

Rhomb

It has but one side. Try to turn it over and (if what they say is true) it will disappear, never to be seen or felt or looked through again. Four edges—a bare outline of the abstraction itself—become one, and that’s the end of it.

Up until now there has been no question of an anti-Rhomb. Tonight, for the first time, the possibility exists.

1

You close your eyes. Turn it over in your hand. Feel it— four pinpricks in the bunching skin of your palm. The instant you open your eyes it will have vanished.

No one has ever risked the chance of losing the Rhomb. No man ever dared to open his eyes once he had turned it blind-side up. Yet, rising to what can only be termed a private challenge, you tell yourself it’s nothing after all but an odd-looking slice of tinted quartz or a sliver of amber. You recall the common housefly preserved in a cube of amber long before caves were houses, and an image (a complex or a simple image, it matters little) spins out of that fly’s transparent wings.

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