“Of all the side effects that Professor

“Of all the side effects that Professor Hinckley said could come with these new super powers of mine, why, oh, why, did it have to be the one where my...”

Mom went mental JUST because I rearranged my big brother's atoms into those of a horse. "OK Prof. Hinckley, that's enough demonstrating my powers. How do I turn him back?" "Um, er,

I'm not sure." Mom grounded me until I could change my brother back. It's been ten years, and he's still a horse. I haven't been able to leave the house since.

In those ten years, the NSA has probably begun to think I'm a mental case because my Google search history is all over the place. "How to turn somebody back into a human." "How to

quickly heal acid burns." "How to forge a will for fun." In reality, I was bored out of my mind. My entertainment lay in the passing of shadows across a plain beige wall.

soon began to open into a dark portal. I began to crawl through the wall and what I saw next was a complete shock. Right in front of me was

a better me crawling out. The new me was smiling & offered to let me slide across him since the tunnel was barely wide enough even for that. I crawled over the new me. New Me expla

-nted itself in the wall of the tunnel and waited for Old Me to take one last look outside before it retired for good. Then, as dawn colored the eastern sky, New Me peeked out into

the orange maelstrom that was falling upon the world. The with my final breath, and empowered by the existential terror of losing you, I became: Forever Us.