Melomiri

The Door I Slammed Led to Ten Years Later

Language: en

My wife was pregnant, but I had just lost my job. I pretended to go to work every day until we had our most catastrophic fight over a cup of hot coffee. I screamed, "I wish we never got married!" and slammed the door, rushing out into the torrential rain. When I opened my eyes, it was ten years later. Hover cars glided through the streets. On a massive holographic billboard was a face I knew intimately, yet barely recognized. She was a billionaire tech mogul. She was smiling as she told a reporter that her legendary rise began the exact night I abandoned her and our unborn child ten years ago.

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