About Face
I like writing “slipstream,” which is what we used to call a very real story about something that can’t possibly be—or something like that. It’s even more fun when the point is dressed up as a metaphor. Found myself in a mood for some faux-formal narrative. This what-would-you-do is an about-face for me—about face.
One particular Friday, a rather remarkable day, 34-year-old Jeremy P. Wilkins started the morning like he would any other: he looked himself in the face.
But this time someone entirely unfamiliar looked back.
Yes, it sounds rather fanciful, theoretically impossible, practically incomprehensible; but there staring at him from the mirror appeared the understandably stunned-looking mien of a complete stranger.
Now, being typical, Jeremy P. Wilkins immediately undert
