A Very Long Day On A Park Bench or How to Bring About The End Of The World

By Dean Peake

All things being strange, Time is the strangest. Especially since it's broken. Time doesn't work the way it was intended. But the universe, it seems, likes it just the way it is. But someone has been trying to fix it from the very beginning. And the Universe can be very vengeful.

Mathew and Mary both have things they want to do, and if they want, all the time in the world to do them. But one of them decides that time is not to be trifled with and takes a different path. A very destructive path.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dean Peake
• Release date: Aug 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370823543

Dean Peake

Dean Peake is a writer living and working in Utah. When he is not working a full time 'REAL' job, he spends time writing in a smokey dungeon that has books lining the dreary, wet walls. He has a wife and four kids, and THEY have too many cats.

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A Very Long Day On A Park Bench

Or

How To Bring About The End Of The World

Copyright 2017

Smashwords Edition

This is a work of fiction.

No similarity to any persons, living or dead is intentional.

No part of this work may be used or copied without permission from the author.

Previously Published by the Author

The Gaslight

Olivia’s Gamble

Unholy Ground

Gravity pulls.

On a celestial body this size it pulls hard. Once it has hold it rarely lets go. But in a universe so large and timeless, where even the laws of physics sometimes get bent, the concept of rare can be as common as a sneeze. Or it can be never.

Momentum. That was the answer.

Compared to the planet it approached, the object, made mostly of iron, copper and magnesium was relatively small. It had been tumbling through the blackness of space for eons, since the beginning, really. Always in a straight line it never deviated in the slightest, just as the laws of physics, such as they were, had always intended. Then when its proximity to the planet of gas and heat had reached just the right distance, gravity took hold and pulled it ever so slightly. Again, exactly as intended. Trajectory changed and as it approached curved more and more towards the planet.

But then, as it swung and began its corkscrew inward toward the surface, at the exact moment required by one certain physical law the planet blinked out just for the smallest of moments.

Gravity let go. The momentum of the Iron behemoth took over and set it on a new course. Once the planet and its gravity existed again it mattered not. The asteroid was heading outward of orbit in a straight line once again. Away.

Away and on a brand new course. Just as the laws of physics intended all along.

But all this happened eons ago.

That’s it. The last one.

This thought soiled Mathew Redd’s head as he flicked the used up cigarette butt from between his