In April, I posted my thousandth post on this blog. To celebrate, I will share here all my short stories. Every couple of weeks, I’ll be posting one story from my celebrated Exciting Destinies series for you to enjoy. With over 30 stories so far, I hope you’ll have lots of fun in the coming months!

A few weeks ago, I posted Shoot The Devil, one of my favorite short stories from Infinite Waters. This week, it’s A Crystal Too Far from You’re In For A Ride. This is an alternative telling of that same story. You will notice that the two stories start the same, then diverge wildly. I love the idea of small changes having huge repercussions down the line, and this is my way of exploring that.

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A Crystal Too Far

The sergeant wipes thick beads…