Hi everyone, I want to give a shout out to a fellow author from the Archive of Odd’s Aibophobia Anthology, a series of non-narrative horror stories. Monica Joyce Evans’ “Nature and Mechanics of Causality: A Graduate Seminar (PHYS 631)” is a fictional university course for aspiring time travellers, and I loved every word of it.
No spoilers, as I want you to enjoy reading this as much as I did. The work is presented as a course guide, starting with the few obvious time-travel basics, but almost as soon as you get into it, the tone gets progressively dark and insane.
Despite this though, Evans manages to keep a certain gallows humour to her course presenter, so the short story never becomes too grim. The whole thing reminds me of some of my friends who still work in the hallowed halls of academia, who get to the point of “laughing because otherwise I might start crying” around exam time.
“Nature and Mechanics of Causality: A Graduate Seminar (PHYS 631)” is a great example of what a writer can do with anon-narrative framework, please check it out if you get the chance!
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