The Discombobulator

`Sweetheart please help me find my keys. i’m going to be late. and I just can’t place it.

You opened the front door last night, when we got home. I remember that. Maybe you left it in your jacket.

`Oh! Let me check… - nope - not there either

… Okay before I actually help you look. Promise me you won’t get all depressed again. Like last year. You were in a drunken Stupor for nearly a Moon Month.

`Ya… that was bad. - he laughed a deep laugh -

Let’s see here… she said. Let me go look in the upstairs bathroom.

`Great idea ill look in the kitchen.

And so they looked. for what seemed like hours but was more like 10 or so minutes.

Being at their stature, they didn’t have to do anything themselves. But they seemed normal enough.

`I don’t think we’re going to find them…

Cant you just replace the keys? They’re just keys?

`No these were the special ones. The ones I need for work. The Others are coming by soon and we need to unlock the Chest as well. This wont do.. I have to find them. The guests will be here for our meeting in 30 minutes.

Sweetheart. You promised. Not again.

`I have no other way. There just isn’t time. I know I’d find them if i really looked. Or blew this place up. But then we’d have other issues. - he paused - looking at her - knowing what the next month would hold

She left the room without a word.

He goes downstairs into a well lit, wooden mossy room. He types a few things into a Computer, and looks deep within it.

«Begin Simulation»

Reading the logs slowly, he tells it to simulate a different reality. One not so dissimilar to their own. From the beginning. Wars will be fought. Love lost. Creation. Destruction. Universes made. Galaxies formed. Geniuses born…

All to find some fucking keys.

“Little Tokyo is a neighborhood by the beach in Vancouver, British Columbia. One hop skip away from actual Tokyo, Cherry Blossoms bloom in late March and April. Flowers have their seasons, and roses come later. Sushi restaurants abound. And writers like myself get what we can. A place known for starting Green Peace, and tight yoga pants, a surprisingly small amount of yoga studios now exist. They all got priced out by shoppers wanting to feel healthy, being by the beach, buying a lifestyle…”

- Shayan Arman, Monday March 30th, 2026, 9:53am