{"id":118,"date":"2018-01-07T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejasondavis.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2023-03-05T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T08:21:33","slug":"story-6-6-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejasondavis.com\/story-6-6-january-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Story #6 – 6 January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suppressing his excitement, Toby thanked Alicia for participating in his telepathy experiment, and ushered her out of the psychology lab. As she crossed the walkway that bridged the third floors of the more conventional, 1950s-built psychology building and the modernist 1970s-nightmare where the physical sciences resided, Toby lost sight of her in a sudden surge of transiting students. He returned to the lab.<\/p>\n

Fifty out of fifty<\/em>, he thought, picking the uppermost Zener card from the stack, that\u2019s statistically impossible.<\/em> Then he noticed the card: three wavy lines. He consulted the notepad where he\u2019d tracked the actual cards against Alicia\u2019s verbal guesses; a circle was the fiftieth card drawn according to his notes. He checked the forty-ninth\u2014the card was a square, but his notes recorded a star.<\/p>\n

Panicking, Toby wound back the audiotape he\u2019d made of the session.<\/p>\n

His voice, irritatingly high, confirmed \u201cStar. And number fifty\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Then another male voice, a much deeper one, said, \u201cCircle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026is a circle,\u201d Toby\u2019s voice concurred. \u201cThat\u2019s fifty out of fifty, Alicia. I think you must<\/em> be reading my mind or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deep, male voice replied, \u201cOr something.\u201d The deep voice laughed. \u201cI should go; I\u2019ve got a class to get to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2018 by Jason Davis. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

In 2018, I tried to write a short-short story every day. I was eventually derailed by a weekend away from my desk and mounting guilt that the Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project was taking longer than expected, and every waking moment should be dedicated to its completion.<\/em><\/p>\n

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With five years distance, I like some of the stories, each one having been placed before me by Facebook for the last week, and I think the exercise is serving a purpose now that it failed to accomplish at the time. We shall see.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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