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The following is a piece of writing submitted by clayman on September 29, 2008
"An idea I've toyed with but never wrote down"

Backstepper

I woke up, eased into my clothes and walked backwards out of the bedroom.
This was going to be the hardest day of my life. The day I met her...

I threw dinner up onto a plate and put it in the microwave where it slowly turned cold. I stuck it into the fridge and backed out of the front door, jumped into the car and drove backwards to the office among hundreds of other cars doing the same thing.

You see, ever since I inadvertently stepped into the Professor's particle beam, I have been living my life backwards.

And today is the day I met the love of my life, and it will be the last time I ever see her again.

I have full consciousness of both my future (up until that fateful day in the laboratory) and my past (what I can remember of it - like everyone else, my past is just a spotty patchwork of memories - so I do get surprised from time to time), but I have no control over either; it's sort of like living in a constant state of deja vu.

Actually, it's like living in Hell. It's monotonous, painful, and humiliating. Today is the worst one yet. I've lately been reliving the thrill of falling in love in reverse. And, believe me, losing someone this way is even more heart-wrenching than in forward time.

Oh, well, I've got to get "back" to work. And I have a little rendezvous to attend to.

Goodbye...

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