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Monday Microfiction: "Schrödinger's Love"
- Jennifer Peaslee
- Aug 4
- 1 min read
This week's microfiction is a 150-word story about the observer effect.
Many of my micro stories are inspired by prompts provided by THE FICTION DEALER Substack. I highly recommend checking it out if you’re interested in reading more microfics — or writing your own!
Schrödinger's Love
Sarah sits in St. Mary’s crowded waiting room, grasping a bent spoon. She practices unbending it with her mind. When she looks away, she can feel the spoon’s atoms untwist into their proper position. She focuses on the mute TV showing some HGTV show about fixing houses that don’t need to be fixed.
When she looks back, the spoon is bent. Sarah wonders: Is it better to have a bent spoon that she can look at, or a perfect spoon she can’t?
Keisha’s in the operating room. That’s a nice, safe way of saying, “Keisha is being cut open and explored.” And that’s a nicer way of saying, “Keisha is dying.”
Sarah can fix Keisha. If she focuses, she can feel Keisha’s vitality returning, blood running through veins and arteries, heart beating, lungs expanding. She lives—lives—lives.
All Sarah has to do is never look at her love again.
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