Odd Results

Three point five against one. Seventeen point two against one. Thirty-eight point six against one. A hundred and twelve point zero against one. The physicist turned off the machine and rechecked all the parameters of the quantum impossibility experiment.

She made a minor adjustment and restarted the experiment.

Two point two against one. Twenty-three point seven against one. Ninety-two point three against one. Two hundred and seven point seven against one.

As the machine repeated its experiment automatically time and again, the accumulated odds that they were living in a fictional world kept growing.

She'd just have to hope it wasn't a short story.

.finis.