Null Legacy

By Matthew Gordon

Enough test trials guarantees every ending to every story and every outcome to every event. A group of maintenance workers called nulls is enlisted to operate the world; they track it meticulously down to each time a colour changes or a shadow moves. Reality distorts in even the most everyday situations. One null visits a café where the run-down decor frequently gives away to a Carroll-esque series of seemingly random processes, and takes down every experience with robotic precision. What he never knows is when, or if, he is ever truly in control.

A short, quick journey into the malleable, the speculative and the weird.

Null Legacy is also available in the Toronto Writers' Co-Operative anthology Voices 2016.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Gordon
• Release date: Nov 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370142606

Matthew Gordon

Matthew Gordon was born in Toronto on August 3, 1987. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English and History from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. He has also completed his Freelance Writing Certificate at the University of Toronto and has written for RealGM.com and The Billfold. His first published fiction was released in June 2012. When he is not writing, he is diving into a book or listening to music.

Book preview