The Great Step SidewaysThis story first appeared in Of Altered States II, 2013
Photograph by Stryker Knight
In what became known as the Great Step Sideways, everybody on earth moved six feet to the left. This had a profound effect on things, as you can probably imagine.
Take the case of poor Johannes Lindemann. An avid wildlife photographer, he had long anticipated this trip to South Africa. To be in a shark cage, suspended beneath the Persephone, his Nikon capturing images of a large female … well, it was the pinnacle of his career. The Great White, inflamed by the burley thrown from the Persephone’s transom that hung thick in the water, torpedoed into Johannes’ cage, her teeth centimetres from his face. Her black eye rolled and her lips retreated, and he could sense her confusion, her
