It's why she moved out so quickly after finishing community college and into the dorms. She would much rather live on campus than with Mason. And yet, here he was walking a little ball of fluff, cheerfully greeting her, and even giving her money.
Now she had seen everything.
If Samantha had been unsure that this was an alternate dimension before, she sure wasn't now. "Uh, yeah, just give it ta me next time..." Samantha paused. She was having a moral dilemma. Technically, it wasn't her money - it was AD Samantha's, so she should tell AD Mason to give it to her later so that AD Samantha would get it. But, Professor Xoi, Professor Dlaun, and herself were currently stuck in an alternate dimension with no money.
What would the professors tell her to do? She figured they'd have debated about the morals of taking the money, factoring in the need to survive, and the probability of causing some weird dimensional rift.
You know what? Dimensional rifts didn't sound fun. Samantha's made do without before. She could help the professors figure this out. No dimensional rifts. Nope. No thank ya.
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Round Robin October 2020
Science FictionThis story began with the words "Don't push the button." It devolved from there. This is a round-robin story written for the month of October in the year 2020 by three writers who get hopelessly inspired to write multiple things at once. This is the...
