Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

I shift my punchline three cultures over, adjust the timing, and incept it into a teenage mind.
[Your move,] I telepathically beam to my opponent: Grammar Nazi Prime.

He studies the Interdimensional Array–the vast arrangement of minds and imaginations between him and I.  He moves an essay into a college professor: a dry-ass paper detailing the need for compassion and fairness, paired with the metaphor of an existential ocean.

[You sure?]  I raise an eyebrow.

He keeps his psyche on the essay, wavering.  A few seconds later, he lets it go.  [Yes.]

My turn.  I shift a logic-tight fantasy world into a budding comics creator, locking every potential move Grammar Nazi Prime can perform into an insignificant, unimaginative pile of pedantic shit.

[Checkmate.]

Horror dawns in his bespectacled eyes.  [No—YOU CHEATED!]

I grin at him across the acausal expanse.  [Nope—it was a simple matter of deliberately reducing my dogma and ritual.  You, on the other hand, have locked yourself into a reactive, unsustainable prison. It’s not that I beat you..]  I pause, letting it sink in for a second.

[It’s that you never had a chance.]

[RUAAAHHH!!!] GNP goes apeshit crazy, blasting lightning bolts and platitudes out at me from his asshole chakra (no surprise there) directed toward my psychogenic semblage.  I dart between dimensions, avoiding his frenetic barrage of Grammar-borne fury.  Ha HA!  Can’t touch me, I’m Kent Effin’ Wayne, sci fi author and consummate Man Wh—

And then he hits with a horrid blast of red-ink slashes and utter intolerance for sentence fragments.  I scream in pain, trying desperately to keep my being from unraveling.  Holy shit, how do English students FUCKING STAND THIS???  I’m about to undergo complete discoherence.

Only one option left. I reach deep in my mentum, and tap into the sci fi story Echo, activating its reality distortion powers. Magic flash.

[What’re you–] His eyes widen. [NO!]

The essence of squat racks, ribeyes, and hill sprints comes flying at him, tearing at his psychic integrity with unheralded viciousness.  That’s right, bitch—ain’t no Grammar Nazi that can take on the power of SQUATS, much less ribeyes and hill sprints! BOOYAH!

As GNP fragments into a dazzling fade of glittering motes, his outraged scream diminishes into a faint whisper.

[DAMN YOU KENT WAYNE! DAAAAMMMNNN YOOOOUUUuuuuuu…]

Ha HA!  There ain’t no GRAMMAR NAZI that can take on Kent fuckin’ Wayne!  You serious, bro?!? Get the fuck out of here! HEH heh heh!

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