Spanking Tales of the Unexpected by Susan Thomas

Author:Susan Thomas [Thomas, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: LSF Publications
Published: 2015-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Civilised

She sat on a stainless steel chair at a small stainless steel desk in a room that looked as if it might be made of glass, except she could see nothing outside. In fact she could see nothing inside really, not even a door, everything was seamless. On each wrist was a strange soft bracelet that they had attached when they had arrested her. Since they didn't hold her wrists together, she had no idea what they were for. Opposite her sat a man on a stainless steel chair wearing a uniform, but one that was very strange to her eyes.

"I regret to inform you," he said, "that you have been found guilty of an aggravated breach of the Space and Time Continuum Act in that you were found on an alternative version of your planet where you did not exist. Specifically, although an inhabitant of Earth97 in your year of 2023AD, you were found on Earth123 in your year of 2023AD. The finding of aggravated breach is due to the fact that you do not exist on Earth123 in the year of 2023AD. The consequences to the space time continuum of your presence are so mind-numbingly frightening that one of the judges fainted."

"How could there be a trial if I wasn't there?"

"You don't need to be there for a trial to take place. Your case, such as it is, was put for you."

"But I didn't know there was such a law so how can I be guilty and anyway..."

He interrupted. "Ignorance is no excuse in law, you know."

"Yeah, but how can I not exist on Earth123? I have existed on all the other earths I have visited."

"Yes and your reckless disregard of safety and protocol was noted at your trial. Quite apart from the fact you are not authorised to go anywhere outside Earth97, you visited alternative variations of Earth where you do exist which is also banned, except under careful supervision. That is how we spotted you hitching on to transports but visiting where you do NOT exist..."

He shuddered to a stop.

"But I must exist there!"

He sighed. "Let's see shall we."

He took what looked to her like a silver pen from his pocket and laid it on the table. It promptly unrolled into something the size and thickness of an A4 sheet of paper, and she realised it was some sort of computer which he began to operate.

"You see on Earth123 your parents may not have married or one of them might have died or any number of differing factors could have caused the paths of the two earths to diverge. Ah yes, see here, you were knocked off a bicycle and killed at age 9."

She went white. "I remember that. He came around the corner too fast and just missed me. He managed to turn the wheel, and he shot off into a ditch."

"Well on Earth123 he didn't, and you don't exist there any more."

"Anyway," he continued in a severe tone of voice, "that is all irrelevant. You have been found guilty and sentenced.

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