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    We Should Have Named You Corona: Short Story Singles
    We Should Have Named You Corona: Short Story Singles
    We Should Have Named You Corona: Short Story Singles
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    We Should Have Named You Corona: Short Story Singles

    By Joe Vasicek

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    Why do hard times break some men, while making others stronger?

    So there I was, a disheveled wreck, standing across the kitchen table from my lovely wife as I desperately tried to convince her that the seductive mirror universe version of myself was, in fact, the impostor. And I was losing.

    Includes a bonus story written with ChatGPT!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoe Vasicek
    Release dateOct 23, 2023
    ISBN9798223913672
    We Should Have Named You Corona: Short Story Singles
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    Joe Vasicek

    Joe Vasicek fell in love with science fiction and fantasy when he read The Neverending Story as a child. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Genesis Earth, Gunslinger to the Stars, The Sword Keeper, and the Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic at Brigham Young University and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus Mountains. He lives in Utah with his wife, daughter, and two apple trees.

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      We Should Have Named You Corona - Joe Vasicek

      We Should Have Named You Corona

      Joe Vasicek

      Copyright © 2023 Joseph Vasicek.

      All rights reserved.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to actual persons, organizations, or events is purely coincidental.

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      We Should Have Named You Corona

      So there I was, a disheveled wreck, standing across the kitchen table from my lovely wife as I desperately tried to convince her that the seductive mirror universe version of myself was, in fact, the impostor. And I was losing.

      We know how you came here, my thinner and better dressed self said smoothly. We found the timeslip device you used to infiltrate this timeline.

      "You were the one who kidnapped me!" I said, rather lamely. "That’s your timeslip device—you’re the real impostor!"

      I’m not, he said, and I can prove it. Then, turning to my wife, "ask him a question that only I would

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