Parallel Reality Man

By Mike Ward

Paul Bremer is one of ten people who go to sites around the world where a Finnish professor has theorized that there will be a quantum vortex energy spike on a certain day of the year. While walking the site Paul feels dizzy and sits down. When he recovers he finds that he has somehow jumped between worlds to another quantum reality. Paul's wife is called Joanie and in this world she is married to his friend Todd and Paul is married to Todd's wife Susan.

Paul emails the Finnish professor who sent him to the site in Washington State only to find that in this world the Finnish professor has never heard of him. Paul convinces the professor to help him get back to his own world but all the professor is interested in is himself and his own research. Fighting an uphill battle, Paul is determined to get back to his own world even though the world he is now in may well be better than the one he left. Will he stay with his new wife Susan who loves him far more than his old wife Joanie ever did or will he go back to his own world. The worlds will be in coincidence in 3 months or 10 years and as the 3 month point approaches Paul grapples with the choice he has to make. Which world will he choose? Will he even have the chance to go back? Read on and find out.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Ward
• Release date: Feb 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311320551

Mike Ward

Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas

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Parallel Reality Man

by Mike Ward

Cover photo taken in Jekyll Island, Georgia by Mike Ward

Copyright 2016 Mike Ward

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Parallel Reality Man

Are you okay Paul? Todd said. We lost you there. I don't know how. All of us wondered where you had gotten to.

Todd wasn't the only one wondering where Paul Bremer had gotten to. Paul had been wondering that himself. He had no idea where he was or how he had gotten here. He was confused and dizzy. He didn't say anything. He just sat on the bank feeling nauseous.

Seriously Paul where did you get to? There is nowhere here to disappear to," Todd said.

Where was here? Paul didn't know. Todd was his best friend although sometimes he wondered what he was doing with a best friend called Todd. Todd was what you would expect of a man with that name. An all round sportsman with a way with women but he was deeper than that. Behind what had once been a jock facade there was a sensitive thinking man and that was why he was Paul's best friend. Paul was fit and he was strong but he wasn't an athlete and never had been. But that wasn't what was important here – where the hell was he?

Where are we Todd? he said.

You're joshing me right.

No, I'm not, Paul said. Something happened and its left me really confused. He stood up, became dizzy and fell sideways.

Instantly Todd was at his side, supporting him, lifting him back up. He had moved so fast Paul hadn't even seen him coming. Are you okay? Todd said.

No I'm not he wanted to say but that was not a thing men said. I'm okay, he said. I'm fine.

Is it the drugs? Todd said. Do you need to sit down?

Drugs? What the hell was going on? He didn't take drugs, at least not as far as he knew. But then if he didn't take drugs then why did he feel so sick? I'm okay, he said and suddenly he was okay, the dizziness lifted like a veil. He knew where he was but having said that he had no memory of the last half hour. All he remembered was walking the path he had been told to walk, in the way he had been told to walk it. He remembered starting to do that, he remembered the first turn in the path but he didn't remember anything after that. The next thing he remembered was sitting on the grass bank, not knowing where he was and feeling nauseous.

He focused on why he had been walking the path and the memory of a Finnish man came to him. He didn't know the Finnish man at all but he did have a mental picture of the man's web page. Paul was a project manager for a big company out of the city he lived in. At that point he was certain he had amnesia – he didn't remember which city he lived in. And then the nausea came again and this time he passed out completely.

When he came to he was sitting in the back of Todd's car and they were driving down the highway. Todd's wife Susan sat in the back with him. His own wife Joanie sat in the front seat next to Todd. Susan was looking at him with a look of concern on her face. Are you okay Paul? she said. She took his hand in hers which surprised him. We're all worried about you, she said.

Todd spoke up from the front. Susan's right, we 're all worried. We shouldn't have come here. It was a crazy idea and now it's made you sick.

I'm not sick, Paul said. I'm never sick. I'm fine. He saw Todd and Joanie look at each other in the front of the car. Something passed between them but he couldn't see what it was.

Susan squeezed his hand. You'll be better soon, she said. It's probably the after effects of the drugs.

What drugs? he said and then he passed out.

When he came to he was lying in bed in his hotel room. The room was pitch black and he could hear his wife breathing beside him. He wasn't sure whether she was sleeping or not so he kept quiet. Joanie was often tired and could be irritable if woken in the middle of the night. He felt better and now he remembered why he had been at the Native American site. The confusion was gone now. He was a project manager in Seattle and they had been at the Native American site because of his interest in quantum mechanics. He had been corresponding with a professor in Finland who was interested in quantum relationships between different sites on the planet. Paul had seen a request on the internet naming several different sites around the world asking for someone to visit each site at the same time. The professor had been working on equations to explain the vortices that started up when liquids were put into a superfluid state his equations had let him to believe that there might be energy spikes in certain sites in the world on certain days of the year. Paul had seen a copy of the equations the professor was working on and whilst he didn't understand them he had been intrigued enough to volunteer to take a