“I have nothing better to say” [working title] by Greg Saucier Jr.PrologueThe hammer fell once he told me the truth: This world isn’t real. “Look, it’s the difference between what is ‘True’ and what is ‘correct’. They are synonyms right? But why use ‘true’ in one sentence and ‘correct’ in another?”“Sorry, did you want me to answer that?”“No”“Then why pause after you finished speaking”“I wasn’t done talking”After a further pause of staring into his eyes, “Let me back track to what I was talking about… Take a car for example. A car is a car, right? An engine is an engine, right? Without an engine do you still have a car?”“I guess”“Yo, please let me finish”“But you asked me a question.”“Do you not know the difference between a rhetorical question and a question seeking answers?”A bird cawed overhead and the tide started to come in.“For the purposes of the next five minutes, allow me to pause for effect. Sometimes a pause is not an invitation to speak. Sometimes a pause is a chance to collect ones …”The timer to the calzones went off. “… thoughts. ”“Be right back, the calzones are done”
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