Okay you guys are going to laugh at me but besides googling “what is an alternative universe?”, I also read some of the other responses of the prompt, mostly other bloggers I DON’T follow.
I needed help, I don’t understand this lingo and had a hard time making sense of an alternate universe. From what I’ve read, it seems it could be anything. Imaginary worlds, the what ifs and what could’ve beens from our life.
I didn’t grow up watching any of those cartoons that take place in alternative universes, I have never watched an episode of Star Trek or Star Wars (is that a movie or series, I don’t even know). So this is a very foreign concept for me.
Here goes:
When I begged my parents to let me join Air Cadets when I was 12, they’d have said yes.
I was born for it. I love structure, routine, knowing what comes next. If you do this, you get that. It all makes perfect sense to me.
Of course it led to a career in the military. I’m an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. I worked my butt off and became a nurse. I love camo and I love khaki green. My parents are so proud of me, proud to tell their friends what I do for a living.
I’ve been sent overseas several times. It’s both frightening and exhilarating. I’ve met so many amazing people and travelled to places I’d have never gone otherwise.
Near the very start of my training, I happened to be visiting a friend in Portage La Prairie and one night in a bar I met a man named Russell Williams.
When the bar closes, a bunch of us make plans to go to an after party at someone’s house. I push him (Russell) into a car with someone who is driving, (which I find out after that he shouldn’t have been as he was intoxicated). The driver lost control, hit a hydro pole and the car exploded on impact.
Bye bye Russell Williams. He doesn’t live to become a Colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force, he doesn’t live to rape and murder two women. He doesn’t live to break and enter over 82 times and steal ladies lingerie.
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