Schrödinger’s Dog

Short Story - 15 minute read.

Milton checked his watch and saw that it was getting late and an all-too-familiar hunger was making itself known. He made a promise to himself to recuperate over the weekend and test the machines on Monday afternoon. That night he couldn’t sleep as his two magnificent beasts that slumbered in the bowels of the university skyscraper haunted him. So, like an excited child on Christmas morning, he finally crumbled at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning and made his way back to the lab. And that is why, at 11 a.m. on Saturday 7th April 2147, Milton stepped into the world’s first, and most dangerous, quantum travel machine.