Maybe Tomorrow

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He really should have known better. But then, tact had never been his strong suit.

Still, he should have known that calling Jenkins, the lead scientist on the Project, a Neanderthal who had to take off his shoes to count past ten wouldn’t exactly help his case.

But he was right, damn it! Wasn’t science supposed to be about more than ego? The error in their calculations was obvious.

Which didn’t stop them from turning on the Generator.

Nor did it stop Jenkins from sneering at him as the Field began to shimmer into existence.

And it didn’t make watching that smugness turn to horror as the needles went into the red any less satisfying.

And, yet, somehow, the last words that he managed to get out before the expanding black hole ripped his atoms apart, seemed somehow inadequate.

“See? Told ya so.”