Brevity is the width of soul.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Long Shot

Teleportation never went beyond a few grams and a few thousand miles. Not enough for any industrial application. Perfect to put a small explosive bullet inside someone's brain. It was a nightmare for the Secret Service. The future would never see a President in public again.

Secret Service agents are highly trained specialists. It wasn't their fault that they didn't understand the subtleties of the relativistic limit of quantum entanglement. Not many physicists understood it, either.

One did. MIT graduate, born in Havana. He had never forgiven John Kennedy for the second, and finally successful, invasion of Cuba, and dying in bed with Marylin Monroe had been too good a death for him.

.finis.

3 comments:

DarkDancer said...

urk.

See, now, this is something you NEVER see come up in scifi... *toddles off to contemplate chaos*

philippos42 said...

Ha ha!

Marcelo said...

@DarkDancer: Thanks! Potential chaos -and adaptations to it- is always very interesting.

@philippos42: A meta-historical Nelson?