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- Tales From The Jessica Files - From Bad to Worser - Hardcover
- Tales From The Jessica Files - From Bad to Worser - Paperback
- Tales From The Jessica Files - The FIRST Book of LSE
- Tales From The Jessica Files - The FIRST Book Of LSE
- Tales From The Jessica Files - Augmented Unobtainium
- Tales From The Jessica Files - Gaiety Destiny
- Tales From The Jessica Files - Ag-47
- Tales From The Jessica Files - The Thinker
- Tales From The Jessica Files - Augmented Unobtainium
- Tales From The Jessica Files - Absolute Time
- Tales From The Jessica Files - Oral Sessions
This book takes place during a timeline very close to that of The Other Side, and this is part of the suffering that Punis experienced.
Every time he interacted with Jessica, it was a scene out of The Scary Door (TJF1 reference) where another card was pulled from a deck that could not see the rest.
The idea and intent were to show the non-interlaced realities that Punis was living during the timeline of The Other Side. Things would happen in his life, like getting a new bed, and he would fantasize about seeing her again.
Don't think of these as loops, but a lineup of a deck of cards on a table, side by side. When you flip one over, you get a new reality. You flip over another card, another reality... The two cards know nothing of one another; they are independent of each other.
Publisher: Secret Freezer Publishing, LLC
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A few moments later, I heard the footsteps again. This time, I think I’m gonna get killed. But then, I heard a voice that I felt I knew I had heard before, and I trailed off in my mind.
"Gents, what can I get y’all?"
I turned to place my order and saw… saw… her. Holy fucking shit. I dropped my Solo cup filled with water. I… I… OMG!I stood up rapidly as if there was going to be a throw-down. There wasn’t, but there was this thing and…
I just saw her. HER! Holy fucking shit!
She was standing there in front of me. I could not believe that after all this time, the pain and suffering I had endured.
So many times, I was ready to kill myself. So many times when I started to… And so many times that I continue to.
But it was her—the girl from the grocery store. I had long wondered what had happened to her, secretly hoping that somehow, somewhere, I would run into her again.
READ MOREShe looks at me, points, and says, "You!" just like she had done several times while we were flirting at the grocery store. So many years ago, so, so many years.
I stared. I just couldn’t stop staring because I could not comprehend that I was here with her, at this point in time, the one I had wanted but did not get.Our eyes were locked, and we did the dance that they normally do. I had no idea what would happen next, and not in a reality show manner. I just had no idea what would happen.
This was surreal. This was beyond imagination. This is beyond dreams or hopes and wishes and bargaining with whatever fucking Deity would listen. Spoiler alert: none of them did!
It was like being in the store so many years ago as she walked towards me, smiling—that smile that lets you know you are butter and being melted. She put her arms out and came in for a hug.
This is the point at which I think that I’d wake up because there’s no fucking way anything like this would ever happen in any universe for any reason.
This isn’t reality, but here I am, and there she is, the girl whose existence I questioned. I could see her, and she came in for a hug.
Just like the hug of all hugs on Christmas Eve Day so many years ago.
She hugged me, and it’s the kind of hug where your body is against the other’s body. No pansy-ass hug; this was a full-on hug, and I stood there in disbelief. Have I just been struck down by a deity for whom I had failed? Was I having a stroke? Was I back in purgatory, and they were fucking with me?
So many thoughts ran through my head that I could not comprehend. After an excessively long time, she pulled back away, gently grabbed my hands, and pulled them up to waist level.
She says, "I don’t know your name, but I’ve waited a lifetime to see you again."
After a protracted pause, she says, "I never thought in one million, billion, trillion years that I would ever see you again. And this is now the greatest day in my life."
I was shocked. It may be just blown away that there was this person with whom I was infatuated. The person whom I wrote many books about because they were special to me in my life at that time, and I let them walk away.
But in this reality, I didn’t kill myself and end up in purgatory. I’d have never come back. It was the light she brought and my love for her that brought me back. *see TJF 16-18
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